Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:35:15 -0800 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> To: "Luke Dean" <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ? Message-ID: <ba29b9b40701031735x3622b8cwff7c83a5f9b75e7e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070103002651.I20975@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> References: <20061230224805.U7072@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <448xgl1ndb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20070103002651.I20975@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
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I am on same freebsd 6.1 I had the similar off kernel sound server , which it was pointing to null device I did this # kldload snd_ich and I had put the same entry /boot/loader.conf snd_ich_load="YES" but I did not really compile the sound into the kernel, it still worked for me. I have to find out how to compile the sound server into the kernel. If you are not certain about the right driver knock off everything in the boot loaderr conf and simply run kldload snd_driver that will print the right quirks to use then use that alone in boot loader.conf and remove the rest. Good luck. On 1/3/07, Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> writes: > > > >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. > >> > >> My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg: > >> pcm0: <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)> port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem > >> 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on > >> pci0 > >> pcm0: primary codec not ready! > >> pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC658 AC97 Codec> > >> > >> My sound driver is compiled into the kernel: > >> device sound > >> device snd_ich > >> > >> I've got a java application that I run through > >> diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_1 that uses sound. It's a game. Partway > >> through the game, the sound stops working. The people who make the > >> game have been aware of the problem for many months, but don't > >> understand what to do about it. > >> Okay, I can accept that. > >> > >> What I can't accept is that this java application breaks the sound in > >> such a way that NOTHING can play sound anymore until I reboot the > >> machine! > >> > >> If I attempt to play a movie with mplayer after the game has broken > >> the sound, it says: > >> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file > >> or directory > >> > >> However, the dsp device still exists in /dev: > >> [0:/dev> ll dsp* > >> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 0, 51 Dec 29 21:36 dsp0.0 > >> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 0, 54 Dec 29 21:37 dsp0.1 > >> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 0, 52 Dec 29 19:24 dspW0.0 > >> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 0, 55 Dec 29 19:24 dspW0.1 > >> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 0, 57 Dec 29 19:24 dspr0.1 > >> > >> The sndstat device doesn't show any problem, if I'm reading the output > >> right: > >> [0:/dev> cat /dev/sndstat > >> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > >> Installed devices: > >> pcm0: <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)> at io 0xfc001000, 0xfc002000 irq 17 bufsz > >> 16384 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) > >> > >> Is there anything I can do short of rebooting the machine to get my > >> sound working when this happens? I thought maybe there was something > >> I could do with devd or devctl to reset the device, but I can't figure > >> out how to do that. I'm not even sure how to "see" the problem except > >> to attempt to play a sound. > > > > Well, it's hard to say, because the hardware could be misbehaving, in > > which case the software may not know what's going on. It might be > > interesting to see whether fstat(1) sees anything holding the dsp > > devices. You could also try using vchans, which would (in theory) let > > you access the hardware from another device node after the first one > > hangs. > > fstat reveals that nothing is holding the dsp devices after the sound > breaks. > I read a bit about vchans, then set up a few with "sysctl > hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4". I had to reboot first, because once the sound > locks up, attempting to adjust this sysctl produces a "device busy" error. > This produced some new dsp devices in /dev. > I ran the java app again, broke the sound, and found that all of the > vchans produce the same "device busy" error when I use mplayer switches to > specify which vchan to use. (I was using commands like "mplayer -ao > oss:/dev/dsp0.1 blah.avi" to test this.) > > Whatever this java app is doing to break the sound breaks it for all > device nodes. > > Thanks for the idea anyway. I learned something. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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