From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Subject: Re: gmfsk sound error Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:16:17 +1000 Message-ID: <200504021816.17341.phil@spiderweb.com.au> References: <200503291856.10875.phil@spiderweb.com.au> <200504011257.06489.luc2@lx2gt.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200504011257.06489.luc2@lx2gt.lu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Hams On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:57 pm, Luc Langehegermann wrote: > > Hello, > > Hello Phil, > > > I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my Asus laptop and although almost > > everything works under Linux (except for the in-built wireless link and > > the in-built camera) none of the Amateur Radio applications that use the > > sound system work. > > > > This is the error message from gMFSK for instance: > > *** opensnd: open: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy *** > > > > Is there a way to overcome this problem? > > This sounds, as if there is another process using the sound device, > probably an sound daemon (such as artsd) > > To find it out, try the following as root: lsof |grep dsp > Thanks for the reply Luc. The above command doesn't list any processes at all, so it looks like no others are sharing thesound system. Also, I had stopped any services that I thought might be related to the sound system but without any noticeable effect; I still get the same error message. Does anyone else use gMFSK under Mandrake 10.1 on a laptop? -- Regards, Phil.