Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Bryant
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >>I haven't looked at the code, but does a value of 0 for vchans mean >>infinite, I know this is a standard use for the value of zero in some >>instances... >> >> > What what I gather, 0 means none, only use how many channels the > sound card has. I'm assuming that

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> I haven't looked at the code, but does a value of 0 for vchans mean > infinite, I know this is a standard use for the value of zero in some > instances... > What what I gather, 0 means none, only use how many channels the sound card has. I'm assuming that John has multiple hardware channel

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> >>>In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their >>>sound >>>daemon is called also running). Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P >>> >

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their >> sound >> daemon is called also running). Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P >> >> 915 john -8

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their sound > daemon is called also running). Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P > > 915 john -80 5236K 900K pcmwr0:01 1.66% 1.51% mpg123 >

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > 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

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-03 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
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'

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-03 Thread John Baldwin
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 wind

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
man Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:13 PM Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current > I recall reading the explanation somewhere on the KDE site on why artsd will hold a lock on the sound device, but as I recall the > lock is

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread Jim Bryant
I recall reading the explanation somewhere on the KDE site on why artsd will hold a lock on the sound device, but as I recall the lock is like for 30 or 60 seconds... Reading the explanation I seem to recall thinking it was a lame hack solution to the problem of dealing with multiple opens on

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
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

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread Cameron Grant
> 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.

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
ECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 2:46 PM Subject: Re: trying to play sound in -current > "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > > > > I get this a lot recently when I try to play anything > > > > > echo test > /dev/

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread Julian Elischer
"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,

trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
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 pcm0: port 0xd000-0xd03f irq 5 at device 14.0 on pci0 -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree Ne