From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 22 9:54:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E513B37B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f9MGs7l05946 ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:54:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id SAA51449 ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:54:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:54:06 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Michael Carlson Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/dsp busy with sblive on freebsd 4.4 Message-ID: <20011022185406.F49625@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3BD44E82.6030601@legato.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BD44E82.6030601@legato.com>; from mcarlson@Legato.COM on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:51:14AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Carlson said on Oct 22, 2001 at 09:51:14: > and I get sound in KDE (Im using KDE 2.2) but when I try to use avifile > or anything that uses sound I get a /dev/dsp busy error and I dont get > any sound. Since the live has multiple dsp's how can I get freebsd to > use more? I'm not sure about the multiple dsp's, but kde's artsd autosuspends by default after 1 minute, so if you don't use KDE's sound for that long, you should be able to use avifile etc. Or you can reduce the autosuspend time using kde's control panel (I use 10 seconds). R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message