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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:59:00 +0000
From:      Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@fastmail.fm>
To:        Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device
Message-ID:  <20030926155900.GF66628@npkfbsd>
In-Reply-To: <200309262337.53935.danny@ricin.com>
References:  <20030926123719.GC66628@npkfbsd> <200309262337.53935.danny@ricin.com>

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:37:53PM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2003 14:37, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my system from 4.8-STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE.  I
> > haven't had any problems except with XMMS.  Randomly XMMS will fail
> > after it finishes playing a song and before it has started the next -
> > the error dialog says "Couldn't open audio" in the title bar.  The
> > message that shows up on the console is:
> >
> > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp):
> > Operation not supported by device
> >
> > If I repeatedly hit the play button it will eventually play the next
> > song.  Sometimes it will play 4 or 5 songs consecutively without a
> > problem, and other times the problem arises after each song.  I have
> > tried deinstalling XMMS and then recompiling, but still nothing.  I
> > have also tried `fstat | grep dsp', but nothing appears to be using
> > the /dev/dsp.  Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
>=20
>=20
> Did you rebuild your ports (XMMS)? If not, try that. No one says it=20
> explicitly but it's my experience that when taking (large) version=20
> leaps its best to update and rebuild ports also.
>=20
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Dan
>=20
>=20
> My XMMS does OK.

Well, I didn't rebuild all my ports, but I did deinstall XMMS and
rebuild it from the port.  However I didn't rebuild all of XMMS's
dependent ports.  Maybe I'll try that.

Thanks,
Nathan
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