can't plat xmms in KDE
Nikolas Britton
freebsd at nbritton.org
Thu Mar 25 05:35:28 PST 2004
I to am sorta having this problem too....
After setting up a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and installing XFCE4,
XMMS et al. from ports I tried to test xmms and it says that it can not
find /dev/dsp or that it's busy or something of the sort. I've setup the
card (DEC Workstation with onboard ESS 1887) as a KO (pcm and sbc) in
/boot/loader.conf, checked dmesg to see that they were loaded, checked
that the devices nodes are in /dev, and also have confirmed that the
card is working by using cdcontrol to play CDs....I read briefly in the
multimedia section of the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html
about setting the card to use multiple sound sources but have not had
the time to try it, setting up sound isn't high on my todo list :-). So
my question is, if I follow the advice in the handbook about multiple
sound sources will this fix the problem I'm having with xmms?, if not do
you have relevant links?
Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
>hi all,
>1. I can't play XMMS in KDE (I can in GNOME).
>THe error I get is: "some other application is using
>the device /dev..."
>I believe the artsD deamon is using the sound card.
>What is the work around to this?
>DO I need to make deinstall and make reinstall of
>XMMS?
>
>2. do xmms plugins have to be deinstalled first before
>xmms? THanks in advance.
>
>Tk
>
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