Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 11:03:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Martin Krzysiak <cinek@gmx.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmms fails occasionally Message-ID: <200305241103.44763.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200305241945.11421.cinek@gmx.de> References: <E19JcXl-0008Tb-00@host02.ipowerweb.com> <200305241945.11421.cinek@gmx.de>
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On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:45 am, Martin Krzysiak wrote: > On Saturday 24 May 2003 19:10, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > dunno why. it will finish playing a song occasionally, then beep and > > pop up an error message that says it couldn't find the appropriate > > plugin or the device is busy (audio device i assume). I'm not running > > any other a/v applications to take over the device besides KDE. what > > might possibly cause this phenomena? > > I want to confirm this. I have this problem, too. It occurs after playing > several songs in a row. Then You have to kill -9 xmms because it hangs in > background (even after closing it). The device will be released then, too. > There seems to be an ugly bug somewhere. > > My configuration: FreeBSD-4.8, KDE-3.1 (running without arts), > xmms-1.2.7_3, xmms-kde-3.0.0 (I tried both: packages and ports, same > effect). It isn't just xmms. I have to frequently kill kscd. I kind of wonder if something else isn't wrong with something like arts which is in the middle. On kde-3.1.1, kscd wouldn't even launch. So, things are a little bit better. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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