From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 21:57:32 2003 Return-Path: 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 2934116A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0193444011 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nickpub@imap.cc) Received: from imap.cc ([68.158.4.54]) by imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030927045730.EDNT1847.imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net@imap.cc>; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:57:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7518C4.7070404@imap.cc> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:57:40 -0400 From: Nick Holley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030909 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Kinkade References: <20030926123719.GC66628@npkfbsd> In-Reply-To: <20030926123719.GC66628@npkfbsd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 04:57:32 -0000 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 > > As bad as I feel for you, I am so glad someone else is having this problems with 5.1. Every time I see a sound error (quite often), I want to stomp the shit out of my computer. Ok, frustration aside, I am getting the exact same error as you with xmms at the same times (after the completion of a song). I don't know what hardware you are running, but I have an Asus A7N8X with onboard sound using the pcm sound driver. The sound problems also crop up with mplayer, sometimes at the beginning of a movie, but also when I pause and unpause. Snes9x has issues as well with the sound stopping and being unable to restart as such: GSnes9x-WARNING **: A error has ocurred when tried to resume Esound. Note that the gui is just redisplaying the error the snes9x core gives. I'm sure this is a bug in 5.1, but I haven't collected enough information to approach a developer even if I knew who to approach. Actually, I don't really have a method for collecting information either; I was just hoping to send someone all the error messages I receive and then do what they need to solve the problem. This is a serious issue for me so if you need, I will be more than willing to help out in any way I can. Nick