Problems with ALSA and rdesktop

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Friday 13 April 2007, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have been using grdesktop (the gnome gui front end to rdesktop) for about
> 6 months without any problems. Today, I installed alsa and k3b to burn some
> CDs. I now get this error while running rdesktop -
>
> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
>
> and my rdesktop window goes away. I am not playing any music when this
> happens. I restart rdesktop through the gui, and I am right back where I
> was working in the remote machine.
>
> I guess alsa and rdesktop both use /dev/dsp? What can I do about the
> conflict? I have no idea how to even proceed to fix this problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark Phillips
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look if esd is running. You can try running 'esddsp grdesktop' which will pipe 
grdesktop through esd, or just 'killall -9 esd' and then run grdesktop.
As great as alsa is, our current desktops still run stupid programs, esd and 
arts, to control sound instead of accessing arts directly. that will be fixed 
soon in KDE 4, in Gnome... uh... 

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