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Date:      Mon, 03 Sep 2001 20:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Subject:   Re: trying to play sound in -current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010903204458.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B928CAB.2F1C95E3@elischer.org>

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On 02-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:
>> 
>> I get this a lot recently when I try to play anything
>> 
>> > echo test > /dev/dsp0
>> /dev/dsp0: Device busy.
>> 
>> even when it shouldn't be busy, after atbout 10 mins it usually
>> becomes not busy
> 
> sure your window manager isn't using it?
> (e.g. 'enlighten' does, as does kde in some configurations)

Shouldnt' matter in -current since the sound driver does software mixing of
multiple input channels (meaning that multiple processes can open /dev/dsp at
the same time and it all Just Works (tm)).

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