From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 19:45:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DA337B401 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D997243FAF for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.1.67]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030818024501.KNMK29617.out003.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:45:01 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF3BAA6F; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FB6EAA45; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002e01c36532$c393a830$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <20030817223918.0c24fda6.epilogue@attcanada.ca> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:45:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [4.46.1.67] at Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:45:01 -0500 cc: epilogue@attcanada.ca Subject: Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:45:03 -0000 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 > 4.8-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p3 #9: 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: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 > pcm0: > > cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: 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