From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 05:23:48 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 C5BCB16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC9543FE3 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: cwSENABS0ULbydexPPSXKA 1068384223 Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.79.242.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.242]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675923E5F5E; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 08:23:42 -0500 (EST) To: "William Dean DeVries" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031109034939.76f247b9.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <20031109090520.GC25990@res241015.resnet.wsu.edu> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 08:23:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031109090520.GC25990@res241015.resnet.wsu.edu> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.30 (Win32, build 3317) Subject: Re: DVD 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: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:23:48 -0000 On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:05:20 -0800, William Dean DeVries wrote: > Maybe some program is starting a sound daemon, like esd or > something. If you started gnome or kde or possible anything else this > may be the case. You should maybe use run 'ps aux' and see what is > running when the sound doesn't work. If you have a sound daemon running > it should be possible to make mplayer use it. > You could try 'shutdown now'(it will quit all you programs) which > will drop your system into single user mode after you mplayer's sound > quits and then type 'exit'. I never reboot unless I have to. If the > works after-wards its probably something using the sound device. You > really should't be using root for anything but maintenance(ie watching > movie should probably be done as a user). > > --James > >> Here is the output from dmesg on my DVD >> acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master PIO4 >> Using FreeBSD 4.8 >> When I play a DVD with mplayer (usually with these options) >> mplayer -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd >> I can play the DVD without ANY problems what so ever. The problem is >> this. Say I just booted into FreeBSD, did a startx, loged into root and >> ran mplayer with those options. It will play fine and no sound problem. >> After a couple hours or so (using those same commands usually) I can >> still play the DVD but no sound. If I reboot *AFTER* the sound problem >> then I get the sound back. There are no other applications running at >> the same time to block the audio so I don't know what it could be. Other >> than this small problem, DVD is working pretty good so far for me under >> FreeBSD. You may get better performance from your DVD player if you include the following line in /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" Try it and see. If it causes a problem you can edit it out. Jud