[Asterisk-Users] newbie needs help with kphone

[Vic Cross]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Mike Stupak wrote:

> However, when I try dialing 1000 I get the following error message:
> 
> "Close any program which might be using soundcard and then retry dial".

If you're using the ALSA sound server, I think this might be the problem.  
It opens /dev/dsp and doesn't close it, so other apps that try and use
/dev/dsp directly (without going via ALSA) cannot get access to the
device.

If there's an option to tell kphone to use ALSA, try that.  Otherwise, you 
can change ALSA's configuration to stop it from keeping the sound device 
open.

Cheers,
Vic Cross