Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:31:14 +0200 From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>, aaron@alpete.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmms fails occasionally Message-ID: <200305261431.14131.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030524192442.370af808.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <E19JcXl-0008Tb-00@host02.ipowerweb.com> <20030524192442.370af808.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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On Saturday 24 May 2003 19:24, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2003 10:10:53 -0700 > > "Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> 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? > > $10 says you have artsd running. You can disable it in the KDE control > panel. artsd tries to play a sound, finds someone else is using /dev/dsp > and waits until it is free. That's the moment when a song has just > finished, artsd grabs the /dev/dsp and when xmms tries to reopen it, > finds that it's busy. I've got a similar problem... artsd isn't always willing to release the sounddevice even though though it is set to release the device emideately. I need to kill the artsd-process before I can play a sound again... vchans might solve this Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk
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