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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------