From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 05:11:01 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 290C616A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1DF43F93 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:10:39 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1ACeGH-0003K3-00; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:08:17 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:08:17 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: John Nielsen In-Reply-To: <200310221619.21530.john@jnielsen.net> Message-ID: References: <200310221619.21530.john@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firebird, java, artsd, sound 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: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:11:01 -0000 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, John Nielsen wrote: > The problem I'm seeing is that when a java applet uses sound, and another > application tries to use sound, the applet crashes, soon followed by the > browser. Once the browser exits, the sound in the other application will > play. I am using KDE as my desktop, so I assume that this has something to > do with artsd. The other application in question that makes sounds in > kmess, which I use as an MSN Messenger clone. > > I don't know if this is a configuration issue or a bug, and if it's a bug I > don't know what program the bug is in. So I'm hoping someone can shed some > light on the situation--ideally one that leads to a solution. Any takers? There's probably contention over the sound devices. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html section 16.2.3 - maybe you can get the various subsystems using different virtual sound devices? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the Alps?