On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:48 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When I run rdesktop, it will not bring sound to the local computer, > reporting /dev/dsp busy: > > $ rdesktop -u username -r sound:local > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > > esd is running in the current session and nasd is enabled. > > Is there a way around this? > - -- 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
