gmfsk problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:21 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>     
> >>>    I got all things working on F8 but then this shows up. I think 
> >>> there is a way to stop it but not sure now what it is. When I try to 
> >>> use the sound card transmit wise I get this error message:
> >>>
> >>> *** opensnd: open: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> >>>
> >>> I do not know what opensnd is but /dev/dsp has root privledge. I 
> >>> wonder if the error is due to the root /dev/dsp?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>     I went to my working gmfsk on F7 and I found I start it with aoss 
> >> gmfsk and it is the aoss that stops the problem. Alas when I try #yum 
> >> install aoss on F8 it says no such thing. I wonder what I should call it?
> >>     
> >
> > yum install alsa-oss.  Sounds like gmfsk is an OSS-only application.  If
> > you built it from source, do "./configure --help" and see if you can add
> > an "--enable=alsa" or some such flag so it'll run on ALSA without having
> > to emulate the old OSS layers.
> >   
> 
>     I must do something. The use of $ aoss gmfsk & worked fine on F7 but 
> does not work at all on F8. I have no idea why. It took me 3 hours to 
> figure out how to get aoss loaded on F8, and then after doing that it 
> doesn't work.

Do you still have pulse-audio enabled?  That may be hosing it.  It'll
fight with OSS.  "yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio"

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