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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:56:20 -0500
From:      Michael E Mercer <mmercer@nc.rr.com>
To:        Jim Arnold <jim0266@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound vchans and gaim sound conflict
Message-ID:  <3DD99A44.5B10CF49@nc.rr.com>
References:  <20021118161759.60959.qmail@web13305.mail.yahoo.com>

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Jim,

I had this problem for a bit, but just recently cvsup'd source and saw a sound.c
change.
I rebuilt world and I haven't had that annoying buzzing since....

Not sure if it will help you but its probably worth a try...

later
Michael Mercer

Jim Arnold wrote:

> Sometimes when I use Gaim and I get too many sounds
> going at once my sound card gets confused and starts a
> loud buzzing that can only be stopped by a reboot.
> This seems to happen when two people IM me at the same
> time.
>
> I turned off the sound in Gaim for all but incoming
> messages but I still have that problem on occasion.
> Having to reboot for this is pretty lame.
>
> My sysctl.conf is set to: hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
> Xmms uses  dev/dsp0.3 and Gaim uses /drv/dsp0.1
>
> Here's my audio card:
> pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1373-B> port 0xe800-0xe83f irq 9 at
> device 11.0 on pci0
>
> The above did eliminate those annoying messages that
> another app had grabbed the sound card. Any ideas on
> how to get this to stop? Is it just a byproduct of a
> cheap sound card?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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