rdesktop and local sound, F7

[Steven Stern]

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On 08/27/2007 08:53 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:48 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: 
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>> When I run rdesktop, it will not bring sound to the local computer,
>> reporting /dev/dsp busy:
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>> $ rdesktop  -u username -r sound:local
>> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
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>> esd is running in the current session and nasd is enabled.
>>
>> Is there a way around this?
>> - --
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> AFAIR rdesktop still uses oss as it's main sound system - hence, if any
> sound server is running (esd, arts, etc), you get device busy
> on /dev/dsp.
> 
> The alsa-oss package (aoss) should solve the problem.
> 
> - Gilboa
> 

thanks. I'm now running it from aoss and the sound comes through.

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  Steve
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