From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Dec 15 8:59: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 08:58:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC87A37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35180 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:58:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:58:50 +0100 (CET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <200012151658.RAA35180@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: gnome-session, /dev/dsp busy, soundserver? Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the course of searching a suitable sound editor beside DAP, I came across /usr/ports/audio/sweep today (on recommendation of a coreader in this list), had to go through gnome-core installation just to run this tool, one tool depends on the other and so on, you all may know this game :-) Anyway, finally I ended in running gnome-session just for fun, installed xcreensave and Mesa3D and what not, got totally carried away, a totally unproductive day, wanted to play a tune on x11amp (Alfie by Burt Bacherach, sung by Nancy Wilson) and found that /dev/dsp was busy. Strange I thought, stopped X11, gnome etc. Still busy. Rebooted. OK. fine. Started X11, twm (still my favorite WM, blindingly fast startup), x11amp, started playing the music, ran gnome-session which now said /dev/dsp busy. gnome-session wants to play some snartch, click, boing audio samples when certain events occur. Now my question to make a long story short: How can different applications share the sound device (/dev/dsp)? I believe the answer is 'soundserver'. Is there such under FreeBSD? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message