Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:57:40 -0400 From: Nick Holley <nickpub@imap.cc> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device Message-ID: <3F7518C4.7070404@imap.cc> In-Reply-To: <20030926123719.GC66628@npkfbsd> References: <20030926123719.GC66628@npkfbsd>
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Nathan Kinkade wrote: >I recently upgraded my system from 4.8-STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE. I haven't >had any problems except with XMMS. Randomly XMMS will fail after it >finishes playing a song and before it has started the next - the error >dialog says "Couldn't open audio" in the title bar. The message that >shows up on the console is: > >** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): >Operation not supported by device > >If I repeatedly hit the play button it will eventually play the next >song. Sometimes it will play 4 or 5 songs consecutively without a >problem, and other times the problem arises after each song. I have >tried deinstalling XMMS and then recompiling, but still nothing. I have >also tried `fstat | grep dsp', but nothing appears to be using the >/dev/dsp. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? > >Thanks, >Nathan > > As bad as I feel for you, I am so glad someone else is having this problems with 5.1. Every time I see a sound error (quite often), I want to stomp the shit out of my computer. Ok, frustration aside, I am getting the exact same error as you with xmms at the same times (after the completion of a song). I don't know what hardware you are running, but I have an Asus A7N8X with onboard sound using the pcm sound driver. The sound problems also crop up with mplayer, sometimes at the beginning of a movie, but also when I pause and unpause. Snes9x has issues as well with the sound stopping and being unable to restart as such: GSnes9x-WARNING **: A error has ocurred when tried to resume Esound. Note that the gui is just redisplaying the error the snes9x core gives. I'm sure this is a bug in 5.1, but I haven't collected enough information to approach a developer even if I knew who to approach. Actually, I don't really have a method for collecting information either; I was just hoping to send someone all the error messages I receive and then do what they need to solve the problem. This is a serious issue for me so if you need, I will be more than willing to help out in any way I can. Nick
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