On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:37:53PM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2003 14:37, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > I recently upgraded my system from 4.8-STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE. I > > haven't had any problems except with XMMS. Randomly XMMS will fail > > after it finishes playing a song and before it has started the next - > > the error dialog says "Couldn't open audio" in the title bar. The > > message that shows up on the console is: > > > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > > Operation not supported by device > > > > If I repeatedly hit the play button it will eventually play the next > > song. Sometimes it will play 4 or 5 songs consecutively without a > > problem, and other times the problem arises after each song. I have > > tried deinstalling XMMS and then recompiling, but still nothing. I > > have also tried `fstat | grep dsp', but nothing appears to be using > > the /dev/dsp. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > Nathan > > > Did you rebuild your ports (XMMS)? If not, try that. No one says it > explicitly but it's my experience that when taking (large) version > leaps its best to update and rebuild ports also. > > > HTH, > > Dan > > > My XMMS does OK.
Well, I didn't rebuild all my ports, but I did deinstall XMMS and rebuild it from the port. However I didn't rebuild all of XMMS's dependent ports. Maybe I'll try that. Thanks, Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49
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