[Python-Dev] test results (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@zope.com
Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:52:32 -0400

Skip Montanaro wrote: > test testlinuxaudiodev crashed -- linuxaudiodev.error: (16, 'Device or > resource busy')

Something has /dev/dsp or /dev/audio open. Are you playing MP3s or running something like esd?

Fred experiences this too with Mandrake on his Dell laptop, and before someone hacked the extension module I experienced it on a Dell desktop with Red Hat too -- no MP# players. The wail that Skip hears is the first second of "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition". I think that different audio hardware has different Linux drivers that act differently, and the extension module doesn't know how to properly wait until enough buffer space is available with some drivers.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)