From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 15:14:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F47516A404 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:14:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (megan.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E55743D48 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:14:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 78460 invoked by uid 2001); 28 Apr 2006 15:14:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:14:34 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Ian Smith Message-ID: <20060428151434.GA78416@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/speaker broken in 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:14:38 -0000 On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:36:32PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > If this is not an appropriate topic for -multimedia, can someone please > at least suggest where it might be on topic? Is anyone able to confirm > (or otherwise) the behaviour demonstrated below on a 5.x or 6.x system? I've confirmed this behavior on a 5.4 system. It doesn't misbehave in 6.0 or 6.1-RC1. I haven't tried 5.5-* yet. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:53:58 +1000 > From: Ian Smith > To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org > Subject: /dev/speaker broken in 5.x? > > This always worked fine in 4.5, and as far as I can tell from CVS, is > unchanged in 4-STABLE. Since installing 5.4, I get the following always > repeatable symptoms when using the speaker device to play tunes, shown > here as root but it's just the same when run as a (wheel) user: > > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # works fine the 1st time .. > paqi# fstat | grep speaker # but leaves speaker open .. > root csh 1919 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > root fstat 1918 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > root csh 1116 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # no sound every 2nd time .. > /dev/speaker: Device busy. > paqi# fstat | grep speaker # but frees the device again, > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # to work again next time .. What does the hypen do? I can't seem to find it in the man page. -- Rick C. Petty