rdesktop and local sound, F7

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:48 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: 
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> When I run rdesktop, it will not bring sound to the local computer,
> reporting /dev/dsp busy:
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> $ rdesktop  -u username -r sound:local
> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
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> esd is running in the current session and nasd is enabled.
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> Is there a way around this?
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AFAIR rdesktop still uses oss as it's main sound system - hence, if any
sound server is running (esd, arts, etc), you get device busy
on /dev/dsp.

The alsa-oss package (aoss) should solve the problem.

- Gilboa