Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:14:34 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/speaker broken in 5.x? Message-ID: <20060428151434.GA78416@megan.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060428152820.6949A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060428152820.6949A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:36:32PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > If this is not an appropriate topic for -multimedia, can someone please > at least suggest where it might be on topic? Is anyone able to confirm > (or otherwise) the behaviour demonstrated below on a 5.x or 6.x system? I've confirmed this behavior on a 5.4 system. It doesn't misbehave in 6.0 or 6.1-RC1. I haven't tried 5.5-* yet. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:53:58 +1000 > From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> > To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org > Subject: /dev/speaker broken in 5.x? > > This always worked fine in 4.5, and as far as I can tell from CVS, is > unchanged in 4-STABLE. Since installing 5.4, I get the following always > repeatable symptoms when using the speaker device to play tunes, shown > here as root but it's just the same when run as a (wheel) user: > > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # works fine the 1st time .. > paqi# fstat | grep speaker # but leaves speaker open .. > root csh 1919 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > root fstat 1918 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > root csh 1116 4 /dev 72 crw-rw---- speaker w > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # no sound every 2nd time .. > /dev/speaker: Device busy. > paqi# fstat | grep speaker # but frees the device again, > paqi# echo "T250L8CE-GE-C" > /dev/speaker # to work again next time .. What does the hypen do? I can't seem to find it in the man page. -- Rick C. Petty
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