That sounds like Pulse grabs the whole device and won't let it go. This is why I route mplayer to another card. I'm not sure if that'll work either, however. I don't know if Pulse grabs all audio cards in the system or not. Pulse sure sounds evil lol. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at linux-speakup.org> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 10:40 PM Subject: Re: speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy > Thanks Rob, but that doesn't seem to work unfortunately: > > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1293:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open > '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy > [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy > Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=hw=0' > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > Audio: no sound > > Greg > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Rob Hudson wrote: >> Can you put something like >> ao=alsa:device=hw=0 >> in your ~/.mplayer/config. I think this will get mplayer to bypass >> pulse completely, but not sure. > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn..net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
