Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:13:06 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmms - problem - how to fix? Message-ID: <20040113161306.GM5411@npkfbsd> In-Reply-To: <20040112200921.GA10661@madras.dyndns.org> References: <000601c3d909$60a86e90$0500a8c0@fire> <20040112200921.GA10661@madras.dyndns.org>
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--I4g3zIzscEHdx6fd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:21AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote: > > Hi! > > I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to > > listen some mp3's it gives me aN error, that I don't know how to > > fix. I have KDE 3.1 if you need this info ^) So here it is: > > bash-2.05b$ xmms > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > /* with OSS driver */ > >=20 > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > > Device busy > >=20 > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > > Device busy > >=20 > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > > Device busy /dev/dsp: Device busy >=20 >=20 > I have the same error sometimes when I use mpg123 or mplayer. I don't > have kde or any sound daemon like arts or esound. fstat does not help > too. I just have to wait for sometime for the device to be available > again, maybe a minute. Any ideas, welcome >=20 > Gautam I have also been having this problem on 5.1-RELEASE. I posted about this a month or two ago and found that a couple other people were having the same problem, but nobody seemed to have a solution. My system exhibits this problem with either xmms or mp3blaster and it is seemingly random. Again, `fstat | grep dsp' reveals nothing. I am using blackbox and have no sound daemon of any sort. However, I am recently of the opinion that it may be a memory related issue. I have 256MB of RAM, but my machine is always hovering on being out of physical memory and usually dips into swap. I can consistently resolve the problem by closing, say, Mozilla Firebird to free up some memory. I then relaunch Firebird and am fine for while. Then, after a time, the problem comes back and I can either continually press the play button until it decides to play, or I can close some application. I have no idea whether this is actually some interesting issue relating to swap/memory and the sound device or just a co-incidence. In any case it seems to work. This is an awful workaround, but I don't know what else to do at the moment. Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --I4g3zIzscEHdx6fd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFABBkSO0ZIEthSfkkRAhjBAJwP8nPEnOfYuIfg/JKDx3f6C53xYQCfXUtn QSyAszFdJ7m3O7+48S9KwfM= =bkX4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --I4g3zIzscEHdx6fd--
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