On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:44:58PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 02-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:
> >>
> >> I get this a lot recently when I try to play anything
> >>
> >> > echo test > /dev/dsp0
> >> /dev/dsp0: Device busy.
> >>
> >> even when it shouldn't be busy, after atbout 10 mins it usually
> >> becomes not busy
> >
> > sure your window manager isn't using it?
> > (e.g. 'enlighten' does, as does kde in some configurations)
>
> Shouldnt' matter in -current since the sound driver does software mixing of
> multiple input channels (meaning that multiple processes can open /dev/dsp at
> the same time and it all Just Works (tm)).
>
I was instructed to set snd.hw.vchan=4 I believe and it has appeared
to fix this, by default its at 1 and they aren't mixed.
--
David W. Chapman Jr.
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