From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 3 00:48:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8E2FE16A41F for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:48:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272EE43D45 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:48:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from ip01.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.5]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J09009WUEA3SU30@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:49:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO dwpc.dwlabs.ca) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip01.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:48:54 -0300 Received: from dwpc.dwlabs.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k530mDMb001512; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:48:13 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: (from duane@localhost) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.6/8.13.4/Submit) id k530mCfK001511; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:48:12 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane) Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:48:12 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20060602194701.W1096@seibercom.net> To: "Gerard E. Seibert" Message-id: <20060603004812.GA1153@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <20060602194701.W1096@seibercom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Problem in KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:48:58 -0000 On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 07:50:57PM -0400, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: > Upon completion of a fresh installation of KDE on FreeBSD 6.1, I have been > unable to get the sound to work correctly in KDE. Upon starting up of KDE, > this error message is displayed: > > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device busy) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > I have tried rebooting the system, but the problem remains. since KDE did > work with FSBD 5.4 on this PC, I am not sure what the problem might me. > > Hi, I recently had a similar problem in KDE. The way I tracked it down was to fstat|grep dsp in order to see what had the device file open. What prompted this was I had been running skype and, after being disconnected, I was unable to reconnect. It turned out that konqueror had grabbed the device when I played a media file and hadn't released it afterward. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty -- duane@dwlabs.ca > -- > Gerard Seibert > gerard@seibercom.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"