From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 17:56:27 2002 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 66B1D37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AF643E4A for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@nc.rr.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAJ1u6ur027006; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:56:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from nc.rr.com ([24.74.128.130]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:55:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD99A44.5B10CF49@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:56:20 -0500 From: Michael E Mercer Reply-To: mmercer@nc.rr.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound vchans and gaim sound conflict References: <20021118161759.60959.qmail@web13305.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim, I had this problem for a bit, but just recently cvsup'd source and saw a sound.c change. I rebuilt world and I haven't had that annoying buzzing since.... Not sure if it will help you but its probably worth a try... later Michael Mercer Jim Arnold wrote: > Sometimes when I use Gaim and I get too many sounds > going at once my sound card gets confused and starts a > loud buzzing that can only be stopped by a reboot. > This seems to happen when two people IM me at the same > time. > > I turned off the sound in Gaim for all but incoming > messages but I still have that problem on occasion. > Having to reboot for this is pretty lame. > > My sysctl.conf is set to: hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 > Xmms uses dev/dsp0.3 and Gaim uses /drv/dsp0.1 > > Here's my audio card: > pcm0: port 0xe800-0xe83f irq 9 at > device 11.0 on pci0 > > The above did eliminate those annoying messages that > another app had grabbed the sound card. Any ideas on > how to get this to stop? Is it just a byproduct of a > cheap sound card? > > Thanks, > Jim > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message