From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 19:36:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD2337B401; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6682F43FDD; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from epilogue@attcanada.ca) Received: from localhost (mon-pq65-146.dial.allstream.net [216.123.141.242]) by outbox.allstream.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CA81388B4; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:36:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:39:18 -0400 From: epilogue@attcanada.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030817223918.0c24fda6.epilogue@attcanada.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: /dev/dsp inaccessible X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:36:35 -0000 hello all, i have been playing with FBSD for almost a year now. i would very much like to use it for music recording and editing. i have installed several programs (audacity, spiral synth modular, etc.) which all want to access /dev/dsp, however that device only responds with error messages like 'device busy' or 'invalid playback device'. uname -a 4.8-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p3 #9: i386 relevant lines from kernel config: device pcm device sbc <--- i recently added these two lines and recompiled, option PNPBIOS <--- hoping it might make a difference. it didn't. :( relevant lines from dmesg: pcm0: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 pcm0: cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: at I/O port 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/0r/0v channels duplex) cat /dev/dsp ---> cat: /dev/dsp: Device busy fstat | grep dsp ---> provides no info neither esd nor any other sound daemon of which i am aware is running. xmms works fine (however it seems to access OSS drivers, not /dev/dsp directly. i have hunted all over trying to find a solution for this, but to no avail. i came across the following Problem Report --> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48338, but am neither sure it is the same thing nor certain about how to follow-up on open PRs. finally fixing this would really make my week. any suggestions? thank you so much, epilogue