On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:10:05PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:
> 
> Folks.  I heard on IRC others are seeing this as well:
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Thu Jan  9 22:49:45 CET 2003 on i386,
> but it used to happen since at least December, maybe even November (I'm
> always using more or less recent -CURRENT's).
> I didn't happen before, so I can be rather sure it's not the xmms binary
> which causes the error, since I haven't changed anything in regard to
> XMMS since August:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  974196 Aug 23 12:24 xmms
> and this error definitely didn't occur before November.
> 
> This is my sndstat, if of interest:
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> at io 0xd800 irq 10 (1p/1r/2v channels duplex default)
> 
> hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.verbose: 1
> hw.snd.unit: 0
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 5
> hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize: 16384
> hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 2
> hw.snd.pcm0.spdif_enabled: 0
> 
> Anyways, here's the problem description:
> 
> After several hours/days of uptime (2 days now)  and approx.
> 12 hours/day sound usage with XMMS and like hundrets of MP3 songs played,
> /dev/dsp just disappears.
> 
> It always happens after XMMS finnished an MP3 song and wants to play the
> next one (also on songs it successfully played before).  This fails,
> because of these error messages:
> 
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp):
> Operation not supported by device
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No
> such file or directory
> 
> I then mknod a dsp device with the major/minor of dsp in / and s-linked
> /dev/dsp to /dsp.  xmms then reports "Device busy".
> 
> When I then symbolically link /dev/dsp to one of the dspX.X devices,
> XMMS can play sound for some more time, but then these are disappearing
> as well.
> 
> Is this a devfs bug?  I almost think so, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Alex
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I'm seeing this too, same sound chip, by the way.  I'm running a recent current
with the src/sys/dev/sound from early december, which works fine.
The only commits to sys/dev/sound I can recall from that time frame were some
locking changes in the pcm driver.

- Christian

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