Problems with recording since upgrading from 5.4-release to 5.4p2

[Ian Moore]

Hi,
I've got a strange problem with recording on my system. The problem appears to 
have started since I upgraded my 5.4-Release system today to 5.4p2.

I'm using a Vibra128 soundcard & have the following devices:
daemon:~ % ll /dev/dsp*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30,   3 Jun 10 20:12 /dev/dsp0.0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00010003 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dsp0.1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00020003 Jun 10 20:37 /dev/dsp0.2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00030003 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dsp0.3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30,   5 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dspW0.0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00010005 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dspW0.1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00020005 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dspW0.2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30, 0x00030005 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dspW0.3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30,  11 Jun 10 19:23 /dev/dspr0.0

Also, I have the following in /boot/loader.conf:
snd_es137x_load="YES" #ESS1370 (VIBRA128) sound card driver
hw.snd.pcm0.vchans="4"
hw.snd.maxautovchans="4"


Sound playback is working fine - I use kde & have artsd set to use /dev/dsp0.2
I use Audacity to record with and this is where I have trouble - playback in 
it works, but today, I can't record. Starting it from the commandline, it 
gives the following output:
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_RDWR
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_RDONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000

and the record device selection is disabled & no recording is possible.
In the audacity preferences dialogue, you can only ever choose /dev/dsp as the 
device for playback & for recording. However, in my .audacity file, I had:
PlaybackDevice=/dev/dsp0.1
RecordingDevice=/dev/dsp0.1

Until today, this has always worked, now suddenly I can't record!
I noticed there is no /dev/dsp file - I thought there was one before. So I 
tried the following:

#cd /dev
# rm /dev/dsp
rm: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
 # ln -s /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp
ln: /dev/dsp: File exists
# sudo rm /dev/dsp
rm: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
# sudo ln -s /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp
ln: /dev/dsp: File exists

That doesn't seem to make any sense at all!

I guess this might be an audacity issue (I have tried rebuilding it, but it 
made no difference), but I'm pretty sure it's only since I upgraded to 5.4p2 
that the problem has occurred.

I can use the artsdsp audacity command to run audacity & record, but I prefer 
not to because the waveform display misbehaves when I do that & it worked 
just fine the other way before.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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