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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current
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On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their
>> sound
>> daemon is called also running).  Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P
>> 
>>   915 john      -8    0  5236K   900K pcmwr    0:01  1.66%  1.51% mpg123
>>   914 john      -8    0  4336K   912K pcmwr    0:01  1.64%  1.51% mpg123
>> 
>> > sysctl hw.snd
>> hw.snd.verbose: 0
>> hw.snd.unit: 0
>> hw.snd.autovchans: 0
>> hw.snd.maxvchans: 0
>> hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 0
>> hw.snd.pcm0.hwvol_step: 5
>> hw.snd.pcm0.hwvol_mixer: vol
>> 
> If everything is using artsd then that may be the reason.  My problem 
> was I had apps using esound, artsd and them vmware directly talking 
> to dsp.  But this is only from what I gather, not from knowledge.

Note the mpg123 processes.  They are in pcmwr, i.e. writing to /dev/dsp
directly and not going through artsd.

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