[Asterisk-Users] Problems with asterisk under RH8.0 (audio/sound)

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 24 February 2003 18:54, TC wrote:
> On February 24, 2003 at 2:32, Lenny Tropiano wrote:
> > We're experiencing the following "sound" issues with
> > asterisk on RH8.0.  Basically the first thing is that
> > the audio stutters or is choppy on the console and
> > over a SIP phone (Cisco 7960).  I pulled latest CVS
> > code and recompiled, still same problem.  It records
> > voice mail just fine.  Using the base install with
> > sample config files for testing.
> >
> > Also get these errors that might be indicative to the
> > problems...
> >
> > Usually on startup...
> > WARNING[49159]: File chan_oss.c, Line 226 (sound_thread):
> > Read error on sound device: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 
> > Usually after issuing a "dial" from the CLI:
> > WARNING[98317]: File chan_oss.c, Line 617 (oss_read): Error
> > reading from sound device (If you're running 'artsd' then
> > kill it): Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 
> > This doesn't happen all the time.  No, I'm not running artsd.
> > Was running Gnome/Bluecurve Desktop with esd running, but
> > killed that.  Also tested from run-level 3 (ie. no X11
> > running).
> >
> > This is on a 1Ghz PIII (Laptop) with Maestro3 audio.
> 
> I think i had this once, you might have some type of sound
> server running that is accessing /dev/dsp other than artsd

A utility called 'lsof' may help you track down the process which
has /dev/dsp open:

root at beastie# lsof /dev/dsp
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE     SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
artsd   82789 root   14w  VCHR   30,3 0x1178822820 21708 
/dev/dsp0.0

-Tilghman