Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:13:36 +0100 From: Willem van Engen <wvengen@stack.nl> To: "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: closing sound device Message-ID: <20020218111336.68c21d8c.wvengen@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020217122625.C291@welearn.com.au> References: <20020217122625.C291@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:25 +1100 "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au> wrote: > After I stop playing a sound file (deliberately within a program > or because of program crash), I can't play any more music until > I reboot the machine. I have a similar problem: when I use a program which uses mpg123 in remote mode to play mp3's somehow some mpg123's become zombies. And sometimes the audio device is not closed I think, so I can't use that particular audio device anymore until it's rebooted. Currently, I start to use a different sound channel. I see you have only one playback channel (sndstat: 1p), so you could set the sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans to 4 and use /dev/dsp0.[0123] to play music four times as long. I hope this helps to get around it. But I would like to have a way to 'free' a device when I want it. Is that possble at all? - Willem van Engen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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