Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 20:08:56 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current Message-ID: <3B957B28.2000506@yahoo.com> References: <XFMail.010904163554.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>>In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their
>>>sound
>>>daemon is called also running). Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P
>>>
>>> 915 john -8 0 5236K 900K pcmwr 0:01 1.66% 1.51% mpg123
>>> 914 john -8 0 4336K 912K pcmwr 0:01 1.64% 1.51% mpg123
>>>
>>>
>>>>sysctl hw.snd
>>>>
>>>hw.snd.verbose: 0
>>>hw.snd.unit: 0
>>>hw.snd.autovchans: 0
>>>hw.snd.maxvchans: 0
>>>hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 0
>>>hw.snd.pcm0.hwvol_step: 5
>>>hw.snd.pcm0.hwvol_mixer: vol
>>>
>>>
>>If everything is using artsd then that may be the reason. My problem
>>was I had apps using esound, artsd and them vmware directly talking
>>to dsp. But this is only from what I gather, not from knowledge.
>>
>
> Note the mpg123 processes. They are in pcmwr, i.e. writing to /dev/dsp
> directly and not going through artsd.
I haven't looked at the code, but does a value of 0 for vchans mean infinite, I know this is a standard use for the value of zero in
some instances...
The other guy's was set to 1, raising it fixed his problem. Yours works with multiple opens with a value of zero.
jim
--
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