hello all, i have been playing with FBSD for almost a year now. i would very much like to use it for music recording and editing. i have installed several programs (audacity, spiral synth modular, etc.) which all want to access /dev/dsp, however that device only responds with error messages like 'device busy' or 'invalid playback device'.
uname -a <snip> 4.8-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p3 #9: <snip> i386 relevant lines from kernel config: device pcm device sbc <--- i recently added these two lines and recompiled, option PNPBIOS <--- hoping it might make a difference. it didn't. :( relevant lines from dmesg: pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9721/9723 ac97 codec> cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> at I/O port 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/0r/0v channels duplex) cat /dev/dsp ---> cat: /dev/dsp: Device busy fstat | grep dsp ---> provides no info neither esd nor any other sound daemon of which i am aware is running. xmms works fine (however it seems to access OSS drivers, not /dev/dsp directly. i have hunted all over trying to find a solution for this, but to no avail. i came across the following Problem Report --> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48338, but am neither sure it is the same thing nor certain about how to follow-up on open PRs. finally fixing this would really make my week. any suggestions? thank you so much, epilogue _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
