Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:48:12 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> To: "Gerard E. Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Problem in KDE Message-ID: <20060603004812.GA1153@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060602194701.W1096@seibercom.net> References: <20060602194701.W1096@seibercom.net>
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 07:50:57PM -0400, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: > Upon completion of a fresh installation of KDE on FreeBSD 6.1, I have been > unable to get the sound to work correctly in KDE. Upon starting up of KDE, > this error message is displayed: > > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device busy) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > I have tried rebooting the system, but the problem remains. since KDE did > work with FSBD 5.4 on this PC, I am not sure what the problem might me. > > Hi, I recently had a similar problem in KDE. The way I tracked it down was to fstat|grep dsp in order to see what had the device file open. What prompted this was I had been running skype and, after being disconnected, I was unable to reconnect. It turned out that konqueror had grabbed the device when I played a media file and hadn't released it afterward. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty -- duane@dwlabs.ca > -- > Gerard Seibert > gerard@seibercom.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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