From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 11:28:00 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 AD89937B405 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 11:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA2C43FEA for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 11:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.199]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20030524182749.XONQ2283.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.org>; Sat, 24 May 2003 19:27:49 +0100 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4OIQx4o073725; Sat, 24 May 2003 19:26:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4OIQvIY015609; Sat, 24 May 2003 19:26:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:26:56 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Aaron Peterson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030524182656.GA69452@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20030524180026.GA1512@goku.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030524180026.GA1512@goku.kasby> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 Subject: Re: xmms fails occasionally 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, 24 May 2003 18:28:01 -0000 On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0700, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > dunno why. it will finish playing a song occasionally, then beep and > > pop up an error message that says it couldn't find the appropriate > > plugin or the device is busy (audio device i assume). I'm not running > > any other a/v applications to take over the device besides KDE. what > > might possibly cause this phenomena? I got around this by telling the OSS output driver in xmms to use /dev/dspW0.2 rather than /dev/dspW. This is with a SBLive! card that supports multiple virtual output channels. I believe that dspW0.0 through dspW0.3 are mixed into the single real output channel by the hardware. Obviously I read about this somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I assume the existence of these extra channels will be hardware-specific, so this trick might not work with your card. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon