[CM] snd: cannot set hardware parameters for default

[Ralf Mattes]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:58 +0100, andersvi@extern.uio.no wrote:
> Hei Kjetil!
> 
> Jeg testa akkurat forslaget om å utelate --with-alsa (siste cvs
> update) uten suksess.  (yes, thats norwegian folks, but you brights
> will understand, wont you!:-)

Ok, so you are trying to buy a dishwasher that can handle oversized
paella pans? ;-)

> Det er kanskje flere feil her.  Hva får du ut av det her:
> 
> [andersvi@josefk cvs-snd]$ ./sndplay /lyd/andersvi/NORTHSOUTH/BITER/fyrverkeri1.snd 
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> open read /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
>   [audio.c[1855] linux_audio_open_with_error][andersvi@josefk cvs-snd]$ 


Hm, from _this_ we can only infere that some program hijacks your sound
device. 
> [andersvi@josefk cvs-snd]$ ps -A | grep jack

I'd rather do a 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' - this should show what process is 
blocking the sound device.


 HTH Ralf Mattes

> [andersvi@josefk cvs-snd]$ cat config.log | grep ./configure
>   $ ./configure --with-jack --with-motif --with-static-xm --with-doc-dir=/site/cm-sys/cvs-snd --with-motif-prefix=/opt/openmotif/usr
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-cpu=generic --host=i386-redhat-linux
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