From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 11:42:31 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 72E8237B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8274143F75 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef34db9.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.77.185]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29525EE177; Mon, 26 May 2003 20:42:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: Miguel Mendez , aaron@alpete.com Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:31:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030524192442.370af808.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030524192442.370af808.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305261431.14131.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:42:31 -0000 On Saturday 24 May 2003 19:24, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2003 10:10:53 -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? > > $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