From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 7:26:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 214.norrgarden.se (214.norrgarden.se [195.100.133.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FDC37BC92 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 07:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cj@214.norrgarden.se) Received: from 214.norrgarden.se (cj@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 214.norrgarden.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA38918 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:26:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cj@214.norrgarden.se) Message-Id: <200004191426.QAA38918@214.norrgarden.se> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:26:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Carl Johan Madestrand Subject: Mysterious audio problem To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Im using a fairly recent build of 4.0 STABLE and lately i've run across a problem which kinda freaked me out. Im using the pcm driver with my SB PCI 128 card and I have a CREATIVE CD1220 IDE CD ROM. After playing an audio cd for awhile, (this seems to happen just all of a sudden, i've been in X every time it has happened and i think i'm pretty sure i was running linux-netscape each time it occured.) What I start hearing is a sound which could be explained as dropping a pin or a can on the ground that bounces with a breeze type kind of distortion in the background. It should perhaps be noted that every time this has happened I havent been using any application to play my audio cd's, i've just used the controls on my drive. This "pindrop sound" continued even after I removed the disc from the drive and continued every 5 seconds or so, this sounds like crack smoking yes or something interfering the speakers. But the fact is that when this happens /dev/dsp becomes busy and no other processes can access the sound driver anylonger. Something is using the sound driver and the only solution seems to be a reboot. Weird? Yes, but it just keeps happening. -- - Carl Johan Madestrand - IRC: Lord_CJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message