gmfsk problem

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
>
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>>   
>
>
    I tried to configure with --enable alsa but it treated that as an 
error. So I think there is a big change in F8 that keeps gmfsk from 
working. And no way to correct the problem.

Karl


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