On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:

> On 09/06/2014 06:40 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I got it built and running, and now I have run into this problem:
>>
>> ----------------
>> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
>> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
>> OERROR: [default]: Device or resource busy
>> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTraceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/home/rsharpe/wireshark/top_block.py", line 148, in<module>
>>      tb = top_block()
>>    File "/home/rsharpe/wireshark/top_block.py", line 80, in __init__
>>      self.audio_sink_0 = audio.sink(48000, "", True)
>>    File "/home/rsharpe/target/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
>> gnuradio/audio/audio_swig.py",
>> line 122, in make
>>      return _audio_swig.sink_make(*args, **kwargs)
>> RuntimeError: audio_alsa_sink
>> OOOOO
>> -----------------
>>
>> Does anyone know how to get around this?
>>
>>  ALSA generally doesn't share devices.  Something else on your system (
> your browser, perhaps) has your sound device open.
>
>
>
> --
> Marcus Leech
> Principal Investigator
> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
> http://www.sbrac.org


If you can, try installing pulseaudio. Then use the device name "pulse" for
the audio device. Pulse sits on top of ALSA (generally) and helps with
distribution of the audio resources.

Tom
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