Please help with mplayer problem

[Paul Howarth]

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.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>