From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 05:35:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A013216A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D76A43D46 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from dsc06-chc-il-209-109-234-221.rasserver.net ([209.109.234.221] helo=nbritton.org) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B6V13-0007lr-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:35:26 -0800 Message-ID: <4062E01C.4040208@nbritton.org> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:35:24 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tadimeti Keshav , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20040325060759.3829.qmail@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040325060759.3829.qmail@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: can't plat xmms in KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:35:28 -0000 I to am sorta having this problem too.... After setting up a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and installing XFCE4, XMMS et al. from ports I tried to test xmms and it says that it can not find /dev/dsp or that it's busy or something of the sort. I've setup the card (DEC Workstation with onboard ESS 1887) as a KO (pcm and sbc) in /boot/loader.conf, checked dmesg to see that they were loaded, checked that the devices nodes are in /dev, and also have confirmed that the card is working by using cdcontrol to play CDs....I read briefly in the multimedia section of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html about setting the card to use multiple sound sources but have not had the time to try it, setting up sound isn't high on my todo list :-). So my question is, if I follow the advice in the handbook about multiple sound sources will this fix the problem I'm having with xmms?, if not do you have relevant links? Tadimeti Keshav wrote: >hi all, >1. I can't play XMMS in KDE (I can in GNOME). >THe error I get is: "some other application is using >the device /dev..." >I believe the artsD deamon is using the sound card. >What is the work around to this? >DO I need to make deinstall and make reinstall of >XMMS? > >2. do xmms plugins have to be deinstalled first before >xmms? THanks in advance. > >Tk >