[Asterisk-Users] Music on hold & Read error on sound device

[Stuart Hirst]

This is a recent CVS checkout and "show version" reports "Asterisk
CVS-07/19/03-22:42:04"

What's alsa. I have not come across that yet.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Critchfield
Sent: 21 July 2003 02:46
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Music on hold & Read error on sound device


You didn't mention the distro you are using. I'm wondering if you are
using one of the distros that leans towards the alsa drivers. If so,
then chan_oss would have problems.

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:16, Stuart Hirst wrote:
> I am having a problem getting music on hold working one of my servers.

> I have had this working on a PII 400 just fine but decided to upgrade 
> my Asterisk server to a PIV 1.5ghz.
>  
> I have installed mpg123 which seems to be working fine but when I 
> start *, I get the following error message at the CLI prompt when I 
> start *:
>  
> WARNING[81931]: File chan_oss.c, Line 232 (sound_thread): Read error 
> on sound device: Resource temporarily unavailable
>  
> I have checked that the sound card works by loading X11 and running 
> sound tests which is fine. I have used "lsof /dev/dsp" to see if 
> another application or server is controlling the sound device and 
> without * running, nothing is reported. With * running lsof reports 
> that * has the device. Voicemail works fine.
>  
> When I put a call on hold the CLI shows moh starting but nothing is 
> played. No errors are reported whilst starting moh.
>  
> I have been trying lots of different things for hours now without 
> success.
>  
> Anyone got any pointers ?
>  
> Rgds,
>  
> Stuart
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

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