From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 2 19:13:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D72137B405 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 02:13:39 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B92E751.6080505@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 21:13:37 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current References: <20010902141957.B35026@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3B928CAB.2F1C95E3@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recall reading the explanation somewhere on the KDE site on why artsd will hold a lock on the sound device, but as I recall the lock is like for 30 or 60 seconds... Reading the explanation I seem to recall thinking it was a lame hack solution to the problem of dealing with multiple opens on older sound hardware that can't handle multiple opens. I forget where this was but it was related to artsd. Julian Elischer wrote: > "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > >>I get this a lot recently when I try to play anything >> >> >>>echo test > /dev/dsp0 >>> >>/dev/dsp0: Device busy. >> >>even when it shouldn't be busy, after atbout 10 mins it usually >>becomes not busy >> > > sure your window manager isn't using it? > (e.g. 'enlighten' does, as does kde in some configurations) > > >>pcm0: port 0xd000-0xd03f irq 5 at device 14.0 on pci0 >>-- >>David W. Chapman Jr. >>dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. >>dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message