From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 3 20:45:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688B537B412 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 44310 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 03:45:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Sep 2001 03:45:01 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B928CAB.2F1C95E3@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 20:44:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current Cc: current@freebsd.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: >> >> I get this a lot recently when I try to play anything >> >> > echo test > /dev/dsp0 >> /dev/dsp0: Device busy. >> >> even when it shouldn't be busy, after atbout 10 mins it usually >> becomes not busy > > sure your window manager isn't using it? > (e.g. 'enlighten' does, as does kde in some configurations) Shouldnt' matter in -current since the sound driver does software mixing of multiple input channels (meaning that multiple processes can open /dev/dsp at the same time and it all Just Works (tm)). -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message