[Asterisk-Users] MusicOnHold with no sound card?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Dana Olson wrote:
> I've been reading the wiki and mailing list archives that come up in
> Google searches, and so far I haven't been able to find out how to do
> this.
> 
> In my Asterisk console, when I dial an extension that is supposed to
> play MusicOnHold, I get this message:
> 
> -- Executing MusicOnHold("SIP/8001-e0f0", "default") in new stack
> Jan 28 14:22:10 WARNING[1927]: res_musiconhold.c:354 moh0_exec: Unable
> to start music on hold (class 'default') on channel SIP/8001-e0f0
> 
> IVR works, and voicemail works, it's only MusicOnHold that doesn't.
> I do have Zaptel hardware installed and functional.
> I am using Asterisk 1.0.5.
> 
> In my searches, I've found that it's possibly due to not having a
> sound card in the system. Do I require a sound card, or is there an
> alternate way around?
>

You don't have mpg123 installed or your mpg123 is not 0.59r.  You do NOT 
need a sound card for M0H.

--Eric