Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ALSA device or resource busy

[Marcus D. Leech]

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.



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Marcus Leech
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