On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:43:28PM +0100, Cameron Grant wrote:
> > I suppose it "uses" it, but why does it lock it for extended periods of
> > time. KDE can't even use the sound driver while this is happening.
>
> set sysctl hw.snd.verbose as high as it'll go (3, with the latest code) and
> cat /dev/sndstat. it'll tell you the pid of the process using each channel.
>
Now that I know how to debug it I can't seem to reproduce it for a
length of time that will provide me with the pid of the process
that's taking it, but thank you for the info. Just curious, how many
channels do I have, I don't quite understand the output.
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Creative CT5880-A> at io 0xd000 irq 5 (1p/1r/0v channels
duplex default)
[pcm0:0:record]: speed 0, format 00000000, flags 00000000
interrupts 0, overruns 0, hfree 4096, sfree 0
{hardware} -> feeder_root(00000000) -> {userland}
[pcm0:1:play]: speed 44100, format 10000010, flags 00007030, pid 581
interrupts 124, underruns 0, ready 40960
{hardware} <- feeder_root(10000010) <- {userland}
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