From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 22:18:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8C137B41C for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Z4Mn-00077P-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 06:18:37 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 75BAD13040 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:18:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 8CD4922590; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:18:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:18:35 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Message-ID: <20020208061835.GA7901@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:00:02PM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > I have a SoundBlaster PCI512 -- which, I've read, is essentially > the same as a Live! card. I can't get mine to make a sound in FBSD. > (Sings like a canary in m$, so I know it works...) If you're > .. all the /dev stuff looks just fine > Curiously, I just tried a different command (about which I know > very little, so I might have used it wrong) and got an odd error: > > # play /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/sounds/info.wav > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device busy > Try running the "play" command again *without* X running. It will fail with the error message you mentioned if your WM has grabbed /dev/dsp (for example artsd does with kde). -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message