sound card blocking

[Alex Wilkinson]

Hi all,

I have a strange problem.

I am using xmms 1.2.8 to play mp3's and a very 'weird' thing happens.
Whilst an mp3 is playing, xmms randomly will stop playing and a message will pop
up that states:

"Please check that:

 1. You have the correct outplut plugin selected
 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
 3. Your soundcard is configured properly. "

I also get these errors:

	esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
	/tmp/.esd/socket
	This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.


This becommes *very* frustrating because I can just hit the play button on xmms and 
it starts playing again. Then in 30 mins or so it gets blocked again.

Here are some details. be happy if someone could suggest some solutions.

FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #8: Tue Dec 16 10:38:45 CST 2003

(448)-03.02.2004 host-{13:47}-[/home/username]->fstat | grep esd
username esd        20220 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x    1024  r
username esd        20220   wd /export  1483777 drwx------    6144  r
username esd        20220 text /usr     619045 -r-xr-xr-x   34732  r
username esd        20220    0 /         16795 crw--w----   ttyp2 rw
username esd        20220    1 /         16795 crw--w----   ttyp2 rw
username esd        20220    2 /         16795 crw--w----   ttyp2 rw
username esd        20220    3* local stream d5e31a00
username esd        20220    4* local stream d5e31e60
username esd        20220    7* local stream d5d7a3c0
username esd        20220    8* pipe dd170300 <-> dd1703a0      0 rw
username esd        20220    9* pipe dd1703a0 <-> dd170300      0 rw
username esd        20220   10 /export  1487132 -rw-------  5676169  r
username esd        20220   11* pipe dd16fd60 <-> dd1706c0      1 rw
username esd        20220   12* pipe dd1706c0 <-> dd16fd60      0 rw


(450)-03.02.2004 host-{13:52}-[/home/username]->cat /dev/sndstat 
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Intel ICH2 (82801BA)> at io 0xd800, 0xdc00 irq 11 bufsz 16384 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)


Thanks

 - aW