From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 7:57:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687A314FA0 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29227 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:57:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:57:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199906201457.QAA29227@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: audio-Device gone mute Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote in list.freebsd-current: > My audio-Device just seems to have gone mute. (I was fiddling around > with "tosha -o - | pcmplay -" at the time.) Various attempts to produce > sounds with pcmplay, mpg123, and cat >/dev/audio now remain silent. > According to aumix, the mixer state is okay. > > Conf: 4.0-CURRENT (May 29), ES1370 (Soundblaster PCI 64) with pcm(4). > > mpg123 always reports "[0:00]", so apparently writes block somewhere. > Any idea what has happened, and, more importantly, how can I reset the > sound driver other than rebooting? Did you check (with fstat or lsof) if there's still another process which has the audio device open? (Maybe some pcmplay process gone wild... Although in that case it shouldn't block, but rather print "device busy" or something like that.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message