Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:21:26 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sound card getting blocked somehow Message-ID: <20060203232126.GA15906@panix.com>
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My soundcard seems to be blocked somehow, and I'm not sure how this happened or what to do about it. I don't believe I did anything specific, but sound simply stopped working; if I start up xmms (for example) I get a console message "** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory", and a popup window reading "Couldn't open audio: Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly/You have the correct output plugin selected/No other program is blocking the soundcard." I know that the card is configured and the right output plugin is selected (I don't get sound with any other apps either), and I don't have anything else running that uses sound, and in any case lsof shows that nothing is using /dev/dsp. Rebooting fixes it, but it then happens again, with no obvious trigger. In my most recent attempt to fix things I managed to delete /dev/dsp entirely (I get the "oss_open" message regardless), and don't know how to recreate it. I'm running 6.0-STABLE #3; here's my /dev/sndstat: ----- $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)> at io 0x1c00, 0x18c0 irq 11 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/4v channels duplex default) ----- Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower
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