From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 23:45:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F9337B400 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-65.56.142.162.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([65.56.142.162] helo=there) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Z5j8-0006V8-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 23:45:46 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 01:45:36 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020208061835.GA7901@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020208061835.GA7901@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 Friday 08 February 2002 12:18 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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). Quitting X did, indeed, take care of the error message. I tried "play" with several wav files and got no error messages -- or any other output (visual or audible), for that matter. After typing the command and pressing [Enter}, there was a brief delay (~1-2 seconds) before I got my prompt back. Presumably, "play" chewed on the files in the interim, but all's still quiet... -- "I thought I told you to wait in the car." -- Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message