On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 00:27 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:16 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > > >>I have done some searching via google on the issue, however most of the > >>results aren't in english, strangely. Anyways. I'd setup FC3 for a > >>friend of mine. And I had connected to the machine via ssh (from my > >>home). Well I was having a little fun. I was playing a few songs on the > >>remote machine using mplayer. Suddenly mplayer gave the following message: > >> > >>[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or > >>resource busy > >> > >> > > > > Nope; you're not on the console, so you're not using the soundcard. > >You _could_ use esd to do this, but it's a little insecure and kinda a > >pain. Esd would route the sound to your local esd, where it'd play on > >your machine. (Yeah, it's a kind of magic...) > > > > > You got me there. I can't remember if that message displayed before, > when things worked, for the simple reason that it was working. > But just to clarify, when I shh'ed to the machine, i'd run mplayer, and > the sound would come out smoothly over the remote computers speakers. > Now that functionality is suddenly broken. As in it was workign before. > I have no idea what I did wrong :( Perhaps your friend logged in to the remote machine, causing pam_console to set ownership and permissions of /dev/dsp to her account so you couldn't use it any more? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
