gmfsk problem

[Karl Larsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>>       
>>     I must do something. The use of $ aoss gmfsk & worked fine on F7 but 
>> does not work at all on F8. I have no idea why. It took me 3 hours to 
>> figure out how to get aoss loaded on F8, and then after doing that it 
>> doesn't work.
>>     
>
> Do you still have pulse-audio enabled?  That may be hosing it.  It'll
> fight with OSS.  "yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio"
>   
    No I turned off pulseaudio the first thing after getting F8 loaded. 
It was causing VLC no end of troubles.

    And it seems F8 has the F7 problem of putting up a full screen cross 
hatch image and it disconnects the mouse and keyboard. This is a real 
problem because you can only turn off the computer. I may have to go 
back to FC4 which has none of these problems :-)


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