[Asterisk-Users] disable console channels

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Monday 16 August 2004 07:07, Michael George wrote:
> When I start up *, though, it grabs my sound card and I cannot play other
> music through it (e.g. x/ XMMS).  I have moved the alsa.conf and oss.conf
> files so that there is no configuration for them (though those files seemed
> to do little), but still the sound card is grabbed.

You're gonna have all manner of trouble if you're trying to run Asterisk on 
the same box you run X on.  You have been warned.

> How can I disable those channels?  Maybe moving the modules out of
> /usr/lib/asterisk/modules and changing the Makefile so that they aren't
> built/installed?

make sure that 
noload => chan_oss.so
noload => chan_alsa.so

are in your /etc/asterisk/modules.conf and restart asterisk.

-A.