gmfsk problem

[Rick Stevens]

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.

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