From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 23:21:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2361916A422 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jester@panix.com) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17CB43D46 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:21:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jester@panix.com) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259D113A9BB for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:21:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jester@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.6p3/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id k13NLQi24795 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:21:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:21:26 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060203232126.GA15906@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Subject: Sound card getting blocked somehow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:21:27 -0000 My soundcard seems to be blocked somehow, and I'm not sure how this happened or what to do about it. I don't believe I did anything specific, but sound simply stopped working; if I start up xmms (for example) I get a console message "** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory", and a popup window reading "Couldn't open audio: Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly/You have the correct output plugin selected/No other program is blocking the soundcard." I know that the card is configured and the right output plugin is selected (I don't get sound with any other apps either), and I don't have anything else running that uses sound, and in any case lsof shows that nothing is using /dev/dsp. Rebooting fixes it, but it then happens again, with no obvious trigger. In my most recent attempt to fix things I managed to delete /dev/dsp entirely (I get the "oss_open" message regardless), and don't know how to recreate it. I'm running 6.0-STABLE #3; here's my /dev/sndstat: ----- $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0x1c00, 0x18c0 irq 11 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/4v channels duplex default) ----- Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower