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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:02:54 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, m.dunham@connectingteams.com
Subject:   Re: Sound failures after upgrade to KDE 3.2
Message-ID:  <200402120002.54960.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <200402112324.36081.m.dunham@connectingteams.com>
References:  <200402112324.36081.m.dunham@connectingteams.com>

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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:24 pm, Michael Dunham wrote:
> I am getting sound failures now after upgrading to KDE 3.2.  I get
> /dev/dsp warnings on load and XMMS fails to pick up streams now
> saying the sound card is held by another application.
>
> I see this is a common error but as yet all I am finding is the debug
> commands to try and no clear direction on what to change.  Thanks for
> any thoughts you can offer.

Do you have the latest versions. There was an update to start a wrapper 
for arts to let it run realtime.

Kent

>
> I can run KsCD and it runs fine.
>
> On startx
> device /dev/dsp/ device busy
>
> # sysctl -a |grep snd
> hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.verbose: 1
> hw.snd.unit: 0
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 0
> hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize: 4096
> hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 0
>
> Trying to start artsd manually from the konsole as su:
> # artsd -lO -F10 -S4096
> artsd version is 1.1.4
> gsl: using Unix98 pthreads directly for mutexes and conditions
> autodetecting driver:
>  - toss: 4
>  - null: -1
>  - oss: 10
> ... which means we'll default to oss
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device busy)
>
> I'm running 5.1 current.
> My sound device shows as:
> grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot
> Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc06fd350.
> pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.16> on sbc0
>
> and
> # ls /dev/au*
> /dev/audio0.0   /dev/audio0.1
> # ls /dev/ds**
> /dev/dsp0.0     /dev/dspW0.0    /dev/dspr0.0
> /dev/dsp0.1     /dev/dspW0.1
> # ls /dev/mixer*
> /dev/mixer0
>
>
> Running from the Konsole command line works
> # cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c play 1
>
> it was working on XMMS and KSCD before the upgrade.
>
>
> On the first boot, I got this probably unrelated failure
> KNotify failed
> DBUG says:
> (no debugging symbols found)...[Switching to Process 554, Thread 1]
> 0x291d9883 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.5
> #0  0x291d9883 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.5
> #1  0x29067651 in _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock () from
> /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5 #2  0x29067050 in _thread_kern_scheduler () from
> /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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