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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:25 +1100
From:      Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   closing sound device
Message-ID:  <20020217122625.C291@welearn.com.au>

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After I stop playing a sound file (deliberately within a program
or because of program crash), I can't play any more music until
I reboot the machine.

It seems like the device is still waiting for more input from
that file.

Yesterday:
Feb 16 07:29:04 set /kernel: pcm0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead

Today:
t$ timidity hp_amin.mid 
/dev/dsp: Device busy
Couldn't open dsp device (`d')
$ waveplay pretty.wav
[..]
openDSP: Device busy
$ cat hit1.au > /dev/audio
bash: /dev/audio: Device busy

This may be a bug, but for now I'm stuck with it, since by other
reports upgrading is not going to make it go away.

Surely there is some brute force way that I can just clear the damn
thing out rather than rebooting each time?

$ uname -a
FreeBSD set.welearn.com.au 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Sun Feb  3 07:02:56 EST 2002     root@set.welearn.com.au:/local/src/sys/compile/SET  i386
$ cat /dev/sndstat 
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Dec 26 2001 06:50:47
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Yamaha OPL-SAx> at io 0x530 irq 5 drq 0:1 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)



-- 

Regards,
        -*Sue*-
 
 

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