Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:45:19 -0700 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: epilogue@attcanada.ca Subject: Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible Message-ID: <002e01c36532$c393a830$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <20030817223918.0c24fda6.epilogue@attcanada.ca>
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Here are a couple of links that may be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html > hello all, > > i have been playing with FBSD for almost a year now. i would very much like to use > it for music recording and editing. i have installed several programs (audacity, spiral > synth modular, etc.) which all want to access /dev/dsp, however that device only > responds with error messages like 'device busy' or 'invalid playback device'. > > uname -a > <snip> 4.8-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p3 #9: <snip> i386 > > relevant lines from kernel config: > device pcm > device sbc <--- i recently added these two lines and recompiled, > option PNPBIOS <--- hoping it might make a difference. it didn't. :( > > relevant lines from dmesg: > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 > pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9721/9723 ac97 codec> > > cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> at I/O port 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/0r/0v channels duplex) > > cat /dev/dsp ---> cat: /dev/dsp: Device busy > fstat | grep dsp ---> provides no info > > neither esd nor any other sound daemon of which i am aware is running. > > xmms works fine (however it seems to access OSS drivers, not /dev/dsp directly. > > i have hunted all over trying to find a solution for this, but to no avail. i came across the > following Problem Report --> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48338, but am > neither sure it is the same thing nor certain about how to follow-up on open PRs. > > finally fixing this would really make my week. any suggestions? > > > thank you so much, > epilogue
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