That sound you hear is the sound of mpg321 running. Do an "ls -l /usr/bin/mpg123" if it's a symlink to mpg321 then you have found your problem.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:54, john lawler wrote: > I'm trying to get musiconhold to work w/ my Asterisk system, and I'm not > having much success yet. > > First, I noticed that nothing happened even after I had enabled all of > the options in zapata.conf & setup a sample extension in extensions.conf. > > Then I read something about how Asterisk uses mpg123 to play the files. > I discovered that this had not been installed on my system, so I used > apt to install it. That install when successfully. > > But now, instead of the silence I used to get during holds (why would > Asterisk have not indicated that it was missing mpg123 to me?), I get > this very strange sound that is certainly not the sample mp3 that's in > the music on hold directory. It's possible it's that file w/ the pitch > and or speed way out of adjustment, I guess, but why would that be > happening? > > As a side note, I've always seen this error message on startup in > Asterisk, even though I doubt it'd be critical to play music on hold, > since normal messages (like in the included 'demo' context) play fine > (GSM, WAV, I suppose): > > Oct 2 13:23:46 WARNING[1074402464]: File chan_oss.c, Line 423 > (soundcard_init): > Unable to open /dev/dsp: No such device > > Anyone have any ideas on this? > > Thanks, > > John Lawler > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Sample configs and more: http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/ BTEL Consulting +1-850-484-4535 x2111 (Pensacola) +1-504-595-3916 x2111 (New Orleans) +1-877-677-9643 x2111 (Toll Free) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users