Laptop recommendations

[mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org (Mike Gorse)]

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Derek Martin wrote:

> > 	- Sound.  Although it appears to work I will often and 
> > unpredictably get "device or resource busy", even when I have freshly 
> > booted the machine and run no new apps
> 
> You're probably running into issues with some sound mixing daemon like
> artsd or esd, or some other program that grabs the soundcard.  This is
> very normal and not limited to laptops by any means.  This is rather
> unfortunate, but managable if you take the time to look into the
> issues...  While it's possible, this is probably not the fault of the
> hardware.
> 
You can use lsof to find out if a program has it open.  It could also mean 
that there was an oops in the driver, in which case dmesg and 
/var/log/messages would say so.