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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:55:51 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Subject:   Re: trying to play sound in -current
Message-ID:  <20010903225551.A99020@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010903204458.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3B928CAB.2F1C95E3@elischer.org> <XFMail.010903204458.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:44:58PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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)).
> 
I was instructed to set snd.hw.vchan=4 I believe and it has appeared 
to fix this, by default its at 1 and they aren't mixed.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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