From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 18:46:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572EA16A4CE; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECCE43D1D; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.24]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hBN2k56T040695; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:46:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FE7AC66.2050006@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:45:58 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looping sound output from pcm X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:46:07 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: >I ran aim after a recent kernel update, and had a rather odd problem. I >got an instant message from someone which resulted in a "ding" from aim. >However, the ding never stopped dinging -- the sample repeated over and >over again, and continues as I type. Even after the aim process exited. >Sending additional sound output didn't make it go away either. KDE/arts, >etc, don't seem to be involved in the problem, so it really seems like the >kernel is looping the sample. When I try to unload pcm, I get: > >pcm0: unregister: channel pcm0:play:2 busy (pid 965) > >And there's no pid 965. > >paprika# cat /dev/sndstat >FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) >Installed devices: >pcm0: at io 0xd800 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex default) > >Any suggestions welcome; in the mean time, I'll just listen to it ding >away ad naueseum. > > I've seen this happen before with irq problems.. if you're overlapping another device with the sound card's irq, it might cause a problem. That's all I know.. enjoy the dinging.. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------