xvidcap: Error accessing sound input from /dev/dsp

Question

I currently have a MySQL installation running on a linux server which I've (until now) I only ever used on localhost. I'm now looking to use this database with an application I'm writing in C# and to do so I've just installed the MySQL Connector for .NET to connect to it externally in .NET.

When attempting to connect however, I am getting this error message:

I thought it wasn't setup correctly when it wouldn't find my database name list, however I can only think that this is down to the setup on the linux server.

It is not limited to local only connections so I cannot see what would be blocking this... could it be the firewall on my machine running the windows application? Let me know if anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening...

EDIT: This isn't a firewall issue AFAIK.

Solution

The /dev/dsp device is part of the obsolete OSS sound API, which has since been replaced by the ALSA API. The OSS API was removed from the kernel last year (see bug #579300)

Assuming the application doesn't have an option to use the ALSA API, one option that might fix your problem would be to run the application under padsp, which will redirect OSS API calls to the Pulse Audio daemon. That is, instead of running xvidcap, run padsp xvidcap.

Comments

[stivlo]

Thanks James for the answer, something has improved. I am editing the question with the update, because in the comment wasn't readable.

[user1649917]

Thanks! I had no idea you could wrap commands like this with padsp :)