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

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> 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.

The problem seems to have been that I was not in the audio group.

Now I get continuous overruns. Looks like I am running too much on
that laptop and will have to move to another machine.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)