Good Bye FC5

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri May 12 12:41:49 UTC 2006


Andy Green wrote:
> Brian Mury wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 20:55 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     Here is what happened. I got gmfsk to compile and load and it 
>>> came up working just fine except for the same dam error message whan 
>>> you try to go to transmit:
>>>
>>> sound_open_for _write: opensnd: /dev/dsp Device or resource busy.
>>>
>>> I was never able to clear this error message so of course it doesn't 
>>> work.
>>
>> This is not a gmfsk problem. This simply means that some other program
>> has the soundcard locked, and gmfsk is unable to access it. You need to
>> find out what program is using the soundcard. For example, I have to
>> shut down Skype before I can run gmfsk.
>
> As root:
>
> lsof -n | grep dsp
>
> The first field is the process name.
>
> -Andy
>
>
    Thanks Andy. I used it and it found nothing. I started gmfsk in 
receive and it found it fine.
[root at k5di ~]# lsof -n | grep dsp
gmfsk     2495      karl   16r      CHR       14,3                4041 
/dev/dsp

    It is true there is nothing on /dev/dsp except gmfsk.


Karl





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