Re: /dev/dsp device busy - one possible solution
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:37, Mike Harding wrote: I was playing around with kde 3.2 and a crashing artsd was locking up my sound system - any further attempts to use sound from gnome or xmms or anything failed with /dev/dsp - device busy messages. fstat and lsof showed nothing holding the device. A reboot would fix it, but why reboot FreeBSD? I then remembered from a while ago that if I did the following... # cat /dev/dsp and then of course cntl-C to stop the output the device was no longer busy! What would be interesting to know, if that output stops sometime. Try: cat /dev/dsp /var/tmp/out.wav That would mean, that arts has something written to the device upon crash and the device blocks, waiting for somebody to unload it. -- Melvyn === FreeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Jan 28 18:01:18 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 === pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sunday 25 January 2004 15:25, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Unfortunately, when I click Ok, KDE wants to restart the Arts daemon, and then, tragically, it complains dat /dev/dsp is busy... I think artsd just doesn't free the device when it is killed manually, and therefore it won't restart either. But I'll try it again on my next reboot, I think this may solve the problem! Just recode your mp3's to ogg files and use `ogg123 -d arts' or Noatun, use kmplayer for movies and then think hard what you need esd/oss for again -:). I can say that the autosuspend feature works for me(tm) on -CURRENT and KDE 3.2-CVS, which will be released real soon now. Just make sure you disable a lot of unneeded sounds in the desktop, like 'shwoosh' on window resize, 'whammm' on window closure and so on, as these add to the 5 seconds. -- Melvyn === FreeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Tue Dec 30 14:31:47 CET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 === pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:54 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH I dont know if this is the problem but it sounds similar to one I had recently. Sound was working then I portupgraded some things. Sound was a bit iffy for a while until I updated a bunch of other stuff, actually everything. It worked ok after that. Now running 5.2. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sunday 25 January 2004 02:46, George Vagner wrote: if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into bsd something with windows on a restart dont fully reset the soundcard on mine. toshiba satellite S2805-401 P3 700 with yamaha 741 soundcard. No Windows involved here. :-) Besides, it works fine when I reboot, it only stops working after a while. GH -- powered by FreeBSD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:51, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 02:46, George Vagner wrote: if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into bsd something with windows on a restart dont fully reset the soundcard on mine. toshiba satellite S2805-401 P3 700 with yamaha 741 soundcard. No Windows involved here. :-) Besides, it works fine when I reboot, it only stops working after a while. Check out sysctl: hw.snd.maxautovchans hw.snd.pcm0.vchans That way, you can give every app its own channel. No more busy soundcards. There is one drawback: If you want just one app to be able to play sound at a time, you can only remove write permission for the other channels. Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
Geert, I was having this specific problem when trying to use mplayer. What I did was change the Autosuspend if idle for setting. It can be found in Control Center - Sounds Multimedia - Sound System - aRTs tab (feels vaguely like describing a windows problem :). I set mine at 5 seconds. Your's will of coarse depend. Stephen L. Martin Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sunday 25 January 2004 14:42, Stephen Martin wrote: Geert, I was having this specific problem when trying to use mplayer. What I did was change the Autosuspend if idle for setting. It can be found in Control Center - Sounds Multimedia - Sound System - aRTs tab (feels vaguely like describing a windows problem :). I set mine at 5 seconds. Your's will of coarse depend. Stephen L. Martin That looks like the solution! :-) Unfortunately, when I click Ok, KDE wants to restart the Arts daemon, and then, tragically, it complains dat /dev/dsp is busy... I think artsd just doesn't free the device when it is killed manually, and therefore it won't restart either. But I'll try it again on my next reboot, I think this may solve the problem! Thanks! GH -- powered by FreeBSD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
/dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:00, Cordula's Web wrote: /dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. Besides, esdplay foo.wav gives the same error. GH -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:15, Michael Clark wrote: Do you have a onboard sound card as well as a pci sound card? I use to run into this when I forgot to disable my onboard sound in bios. I don't think so. It's a laptop (Toshiba), and I doubt they'd put a second sound card in it. I really don't think it's a hardware problem, since it sometimes works under FreeBSD, and it always worked under Linux, without any problems. I guess arts has something to do with it, because I use KDE now, and I didn't use it with Linux. However, as said, lsof | grep dsp yields no results. GH -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
/dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. I'm having the same problem with mpg123, which uses esd: $ ps ax|grep esd $ mpg123 somefile.mp3 /dev/dsp: Device busy audio: Device busy $ ps ax|grep esd 11041 ?? Ss 0:00.14 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5 $ kill 11041 $ ps ax|grep esd $ mpg123 somefile.mp3 This happens every time. It's definitively esd that doesn't let go of /dev/dsp, and for some reason, can't accept connections on its unix socket /tmp/.esd/socket. It's perhaps related to permissions (who starts esd)? I dunno exactly. I'm using a brute-force work-around here: #!/bin/sh # playmp3.sh -- brute force mpg123 (Bug: /dev/dsp: Device busy) until (mpg123 $1) do sleep 1; done Ugly, but better than nothing. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
--- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH Same here. Toshiba laptop. FBSD 4.9. KDE 3.1.4. /dev/dsp is from time to time hold by artsd. Problem is, it is hold even when nothing is played. fstat /dev/dsp shows the problem. If anyone find a solution, pls. let me know. TIA, /Dorin. -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into bsd something with windows on a restart dont fully reset the soundcard on mine. toshiba satellite S2805-401 P3 700 with yamaha 741 soundcard. - Original Message - From: Dorin H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:19 PM Subject: Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy --- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH Same here. Toshiba laptop. FBSD 4.9. KDE 3.1.4. /dev/dsp is from time to time hold by artsd. Problem is, it is hold even when nothing is played. fstat /dev/dsp shows the problem. If anyone find a solution, pls. let me know. TIA, /Dorin. -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Saturday 24 January 2004 8:19 pm, Dorin H. wrote: --- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH Same here. Toshiba laptop. FBSD 4.9. KDE 3.1.4. /dev/dsp is from time to time hold by artsd. Problem is, it is hold even when nothing is played. fstat /dev/dsp shows the problem. If anyone find a solution, pls. let me know. TIA, /Dorin. While it's not a real solution, I told KDE not to start arts. Most of the sound apps I use are non-KDE, so thus far, I don't miss it. Oddly enough, this isn't a problem with debian. I'm too new to bsd to have figured out why one OS works and one doesn't. Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: device busy
Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to search for something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to search for anything (cnn.com, in the dialog box to getting my home town weather, will not work). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: device busy
I'm running windowmaker On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:46:52 +, Alexander Farber wrote Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to search for something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to search for anything (cnn.com, in the dialog box to getting my home town weather, will not work). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: device busy
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:39:59AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm running windowmaker Try installing the sysutils/lsof port, and run lsof | grep dsp On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:46:52 +, Alexander Farber wrote Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to search for something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to search for anything (cnn.com, in the dialog box to getting my home town weather, will not work). -- ___ ONE TURPENTINE FOR THE MAN, COMING RIGHT UP! - Mr. Nutty from ONE GLASS OF TURPENTINE COMING RIGHT UP ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
