[opensuse] Who the... has snatched my /dev/dsp?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Not even root can use my /dev/dsp file: nimrodel:~ # echo "Hello" | /usr/bin/festival --tts Linux: can't open /dev/dsp nimrodel:~ # echo Hello > /dev/dsp -bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Ok, it is busy, but by whom? nimrodel:~ # lsof |grep dsp nimrodel:~ # It is not opened by anybody! I know that if I reboot it works. But i don't want to reboot. I do: nimrodel:~ # rcalsasound restart Shutting down sound driver done Starting sound driver: intel8x0 done nimrodel:~ # echo "Hello" | /usr/bin/festival --tts nimrodel:~ # and now it works! So, who on earth had my dsp that didn't show up in lsof? Another tool to find out? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGCk2xtTMYHG2NR9URAi0YAJ91AMa2EhEcxZzo4W/K9dEU5orfUwCfbC5C Jf7uQuFHQRj92dvNegROQDQ= =R9Jg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed March 28 2007 07:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
and now it works! So, who on earth had my dsp that didn't show up in lsof? Another tool to find out?
Hi Carlos, I would think either your sound is not fully configured or there is a limitation/bug with the module. My sound chip (SiS si7018) is fully supported. QAMix displays the chip number and revision in the title bar and all of the functions work: input selects, mutes, balances, levels, monitor mic or mix, stereo<>mono, capture level & mic boost enable, etc.... literally everything. The end result is I can run your sample command and hear festival pronouncing 'hello' while listening to an mp3. It is properly mixed, too, not one sound interrupting the other. In fact, I've only ever seen the type of problem you're describing when there's a real problem between the config or code and hardware. How deeply have you reviewed the module docs for your hardware? regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 07:45 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed March 28 2007 07:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
and now it works! So, who on earth had my dsp that didn't show up in lsof? Another tool to find out?
Hi Carlos,
I would think either your sound is not fully configured or there is a limitation/bug with the module.
I don't think it is that...
My sound chip (SiS si7018) is fully supported. QAMix displays the chip number and revision in the title bar and all of the functions work: input selects, mutes, balances, levels, monitor mic or mix, stereo<>mono, capture level & mic boost enable, etc.... literally everything.
The end result is I can run your sample command and hear festival pronouncing 'hello' while listening to an mp3. It is properly mixed, too, not one sound interrupting the other.
In fact, I've only ever seen the type of problem you're describing when there's a real problem between the config or code and hardware. How deeply have you reviewed the module docs for your hardware?
None at all, not recently. It it Yast default config for it. It normally works, but sometimes something leaves it "used" for ever and festival stops working. It never was able to play two things simultaneously on the same device (two dsps), but there is no problem ona after the other. Right now something grabbed dsp for 24 hourss and hasn't released it yet, and I can't know who/what. That's the problem. Right now amarok doesn't work. It runs, but there is no icon. I have to kill it. I try again from an xterm: cer@nimrodel:~> amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong? Indeed something is wrong, but what? I restart alsa. It is gnome desktop who is missbehaving... I have to log out :-/ [...] It rejected to logout, it hung. I killed the session (ctrl-alt-bkspce), init 3, init5... lot of processes that should be dead are not. I have to do: "ps U cer u" as root to see them: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND cer 5531 0.0 0.0 3676 88 ? Ss Mar13 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 5569 0.0 0.1 8544 1044 ? S Mar13 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 13503 0.0 0.0 10712 592 ? S Mar18 0:01 /opt/kde3/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 cer 14160 0.0 0.0 3684 88 ? Ss Mar18 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 14190 0.0 0.1 5264 1188 ? S Mar18 0:01 /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps cer 14212 0.0 0.1 8536 1040 ? S Mar18 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 31276 0.0 0.0 3672 84 ? Ss Mar20 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 31325 0.0 0.1 8440 1204 ? S Mar20 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 25617 0.0 0.0 3548 88 ? Ss Mar21 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 25656 0.0 0.1 8436 1200 ? S Mar21 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 26392 0.0 0.0 3552 84 ? Ss Mar23 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 26431 0.0 0.1 8440 1184 ? S Mar23 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 27090 0.0 0.0 3684 452 ? Ss Mar23 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 cer 27133 0.0 0.1 8436 1560 ? S Mar23 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon cer 27202 0.0 1.4 65080 15096 ? Sl Mar23 5:40 beagled /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --bg --autostarted cer 27990 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar23 0:01 [mono] <defunct> cer 27992 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar23 0:01 [mono] <defunct> cer 21620 1.2 1.6 42096 16972 ? Sl 11:15 2:10 beagled-helper /usr/lib/beagle/IndexHelper.exe cer 22230 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:01 [mono] <defunct> cer 22231 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:01 [mono] <defunct> and then kill them all by hand... nimrodel:~ # ps U cer u USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND cer 28203 0.0 0.1 4528 2036 tty3 Ss 14:04 0:00 -bash cer 28224 1.1 0.3 8660 3448 tty3 S+ 14:04 0:03 pine correct. Then a second user (who is not even logged in!): nimrodel:~ # ps U zap u USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND zap 30810 0.0 0.0 3552 88 ? Ss Mar20 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 zap 30855 0.0 0.0 8428 992 ? S Mar20 0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gnome-vfs-daemon Huh? I also see rug running, and I had uninstalled it, so I thought! root 6546 0.0 0.1 20504 1956 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe ping root 6691 0.0 0.1 20468 1936 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe ping root 6825 0.0 0.1 20420 1940 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe --terse get-prefs security-level root 6826 0.0 0.0 1904 32 ? S Mar22 0:00 cut -d| -f2 --only-delimited root 6832 0.0 0.1 20408 2036 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe set-prefs security-level none root 6835 0.0 0.0 2936 36 ? S Mar22 0:00 sh -c export TERM=dumb; /usr/bin/rug --no-abbrev --terse service-list | cut -d'|' -f5 --only-delimited; exit $? root 6836 0.0 0.1 20464 1992 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe --no-abbrev --terseservice-list root 6837 0.0 0.0 1904 32 ? S Mar22 0:00 \_ cut -d| -f5 --only-delimited root 7209 0.0 0.1 21476 1984 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe ping root 7237 0.0 0.0 2936 36 ? S Mar22 0:00 sh -c export TERM=dumb; /usr/bin/rug ping >/dev/null; exit $? root 7238 0.0 0.1 20428 1620 ? Sl Mar22 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/rug/rug.exe ping Who started them? :-O :-/ Or maybe they did not die when I removed the service... Right, there is no "/usr/lib/rug/rug.exe" file. What a lot of rubish running I had! But still, my session takes a long time to start, and it doesn't... seems I'll have to reboot! :-/ I'll try init 1 first :-/ [...] I had to reboot :-/ Ok, I have amarok playing (in gnome). I try to use festival, it fails (normal in my system). I pause the play, festival works. This is how it always did. But sometimes, something somewhere gets stuck, and festival doesn't work. It is usually festival, because I have a cron job with it to tell me the time every half hour... The funny thing is that lsof doesn't list /dev/dsp as being in use (but amarok is using it, it is playing). How then can I know who/what has sound in use? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. 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On Wed March 28 2007 08:42, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip lots of interesting background info>
Ok, I have amarok playing (in gnome). I try to use festival, it fails (normal in my system). I pause the play, festival works. This is how it always did.
Always? I would look at all the documentation you can locate covering your sound hardware and driver/module. I have a 'cheap' all-in-one mainboard and it can mix sounds received simultaneously from multiple applications without doing so in serial fashion. Somehow I don't think this is unusual, even for Linux, in 2007?
But sometimes, something somewhere gets stuck, and festival doesn't work. It is usually festival, because I have a cron job with it to tell me the time every half hour...
Now I *know* I am corresponding with a proper geek! :-) This must have something to do with Spanish culture... I received a test Ekiga call yesterday from a girl running Ubuntu in Spain. She said "I hate Windows" and "Linux saved my life!" (Don't get your hopes up: I have a cat who is older than she is and she has a boyfriend who is a systems administrator!)
The funny thing is that lsof doesn't list /dev/dsp as being in use (but amarok is using it, it is playing). How then can I know who/what has sound in use?
I haven't a clue, Carolos. lsof shows /dev/dsp in use here when sound is active. I still suspect this is an integration issue. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 09:27 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed March 28 2007 08:42, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip lots of interesting background info>
Ok, I have amarok playing (in gnome). I try to use festival, it fails (normal in my system). I pause the play, festival works. This is how it always did.
Always?
Well, always in my system :-)
I would look at all the documentation you can locate covering your sound hardware and driver/module. I have a 'cheap' all-in-one mainboard and it can mix sounds received simultaneously from multiple applications without doing so in serial fashion. Somehow I don't think this is unusual, even for Linux, in 2007?
Mmmm... I can mix sounds coming from several analog sources; say, from the dvd, the tv card, the microphone, etc. However, the dsp... the dsp is a procesor (digital signal procesor), and my motherboard has only one. It is used, somehow, to convert waveforms in some digital format to the analog sound that is mixed and finally sent to the loudspeakers. As far as I know, you need several DSPs to be able to hear digital sounds comming from several sources. My machine is from about 2001, and wasn't state of the art then, so I wouldn't be surprised that other computers have better capabilities. There is some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC97
But sometimes, something somewhere gets stuck, and festival doesn't work. It is usually festival, because I have a cron job with it to tell me the time every half hour...
Now I *know* I am corresponding with a proper geek! :-)
I guess I must be a bit O:-)
This must have something to do with Spanish culture... I received a test Ekiga call yesterday from a girl running Ubuntu in Spain. She said "I hate Windows" and "Linux saved my life!" (Don't get your hopes up: I have a cat who is older than she is and she has a boyfriend who is a systems administrator!)
X''-)
The funny thing is that lsof doesn't list /dev/dsp as being in use (but amarok is using it, it is playing). How then can I know who/what has sound in use?
I haven't a clue, Carolos. lsof shows /dev/dsp in use here when sound is active. I still suspect this is an integration issue.
Interesting... funny it shows on your system and not in mine. I'll have to investigate again next time it happens, I guess. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDBoitTMYHG2NR9URAgcLAJ9g3dyewhoD17KpYr5UJe2+CvsxrwCfdLs3 r1+01Ce6v54tuBFlYlGD2+s= =FDXP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu March 29 2007 15:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I can mix sounds coming from several analog sources; say, from the dvd, the tv card, the microphone, etc. However, the dsp... the dsp is a procesor (digital signal procesor), and my motherboard has only one.
Do you mind sharing the mainboard make, model and serial number? Or a link to it's specs on the manufacturer's website? Or a link to the sound chip / chipset documentation? I have an electronics engineering tech background and wouldn't mind taking a look. Also, which sound module(s) are being loaded? regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 16:19 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thu March 29 2007 15:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I can mix sounds coming from several analog sources; say, from the dvd, the tv card, the microphone, etc. However, the dsp... the dsp is a procesor (digital signal procesor), and my motherboard has only one.
Do you mind sharing the mainboard make, model and serial number? Or a link to it's specs on the manufacturer's website? Or a link to the sound chip / chipset documentation? I have an electronics engineering tech background and wouldn't mind taking a look. Also, which sound module(s) are being loaded?
It is an "MS-6534 Micro ATX Mainboard" form MICRO-STAR with Award bios (there are no updates for that one, only for the Ami bios). I downloaded the manual time ago, perhaps here: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_list.php?kind=1&CHIP=17&NAME=Archives http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=298&kind=1 specs: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=... The manual was 6530v11.exe or perhaps E6534v1.0.exe: 6530v11.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit, UPX compressed which can be decompressed in linux with "upx", and yields a rar file. Uncompresing the rar yields the pdf (weird! but saves some space). I could email it to save time. Let me extract some info: Intel® ICH2 chipset (360 BGA) - - AC97 Controller Integrated - - 2 full IDE channels, up to ATA100 - - Low pin count interface for Winbond SIO ... H/W Audio (Optional) C-mediaCMI8738-6CH-LX Supports 6 channel Audio AC97 2.1 compliant S/W Audio 2-channel Audio Codec 4-channel Audio Codec (Optional) AC97 2.1 compliant ... Audio: Chip integrated It doesn't say much... well, it has 2 speakers, but can be swithced to have 4 or 6 speakes, loossing line in and line out. So I use only two. hwinfo gives better info: 19: PCI 1f.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller [Created at pci.286] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2445 Unique ID: W60f.iC9KKoQ5aqD SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.5 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1f.5 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Micro-Star International 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2445 "82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio" SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." SubDevice: pci 0x5341 Revision: 0x12 Driver: "Intel ICH" Driver Modules: "snd_intel8x0" I/O Ports: 0xdc00-0xdcff (rw) I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xe03f (rw) IRQ: 185 (10673328 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002445sv00001462sd00005341bc04sc01i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_intel8x0 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_intel8x0" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: i810_audio is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i810_audio" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown I'd be very surprised if this thing can have two dsps simultanously. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDEaNtTMYHG2NR9URAoW6AJ9QBaSB1ji+UtPWlqzNveQ+gWHCiQCeJnO2 tXP3ASGvQ9Lv1Y9sxxyCbKM= =rLeP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu March 29 2007 19:06, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'd be very surprised if this thing can have two dsps simultanously.
Well, that wasn't /too/ bad... got a new utility out of the exercise, too, thank you! I've now got upx installed so was able to upx -> unrar -> .pdf here. The way I'm interpreting the documentation is the mainboard defaults to the on-board AC'97 sound system *unless* you install software to activate the installed-in-parallel on-board C-Media CM7838 sound chip... in essence the added software 'switches on' and allows you to manage the chip. There appears to be a healthy install base and active user community here (primarily for Vista related bugs... hehe): http://www.cmedia.com/forums/ The company says it supports "open source drivers" but I didn't drill down to confirm. They do, however, link to http://www.alsa-project.org/ At first glance, it wouldn't surprise me if it allowed full software configuration vis a vis 2/4/6 channels and what inputs or outputs are actually made available at the 'line in' and 'line out' jacks. Have you explored these ideas already? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu March 29 2007 19:06, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'd be very surprised if this thing can have two dsps simultanously. (*note: I sent this reply almost two hours ago and it appears to have been filtered or lost by the server. My apologies if you receive two copies!)
Well, that wasn't /too/ bad... got a new utility out of the exercise, too, thank you! I've now got upx installed so was able to upx -> unrar -> .pdf here. The way I'm interpreting the documentation is the mainboard defaults to the on-board AC'97 sound system *unless* you install software to activate the installed-in-parallel on-board C-Media CM7838 sound chip... in essence the added software 'switches on' and allows you to manage the chip. There appears to be a healthy install base and active user community here (primarily for Vista related bugs... hehe): http://www.cmedia.com/forums/ The company says it supports "open source drivers" but I didn't drill down to confirm. They do, however, link to http://www.alsa-project.org/ At first glance, it wouldn't surprise me if it allowed full software configuration vis a vis 2/4/6 channels and what inputs or outputs are actually made available at the 'line in' and 'line out' jacks. Have you explored these ideas already? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 22:28 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thu March 29 2007 19:06, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'd be very surprised if this thing can have two dsps simultanously. (*note: I sent this reply almost two hours ago and it appears to have been filtered or lost by the server. My apologies if you receive two copies!)
No problem. "We" got two ;-)
Well, that wasn't /too/ bad... got a new utility out of the exercise, too, thank you! I've now got upx installed so was able to upx -> unrar -> .pdf here.
X'-) I thought I was the picky with compression sizes, but these chaps did a very roundabout way to compress that file as much as possible :-O
The way I'm interpreting the documentation is the mainboard defaults to the on-board AC'97 sound system *unless* you install software to activate the installed-in-parallel on-board C-Media CM7838 sound chip... in essence the added software 'switches on' and allows you to manage the chip.
Yes... but I didn't notice it was a second chip, I thought it was only one.
There appears to be a healthy install base and active user community here (primarily for Vista related bugs... hehe): http://www.cmedia.com/forums/
The company says it supports "open source drivers" but I didn't drill down to confirm. They do, however, link to http://www.alsa-project.org/
At first glance, it wouldn't surprise me if it allowed full software configuration vis a vis 2/4/6 channels and what inputs or outputs are actually made available at the 'line in' and 'line out' jacks.
The thing is, I never explorer that side because I'm not prepared to lose any of the inputs or oputputs, I use them all. I use the internal one for the TV card, in mono (argh!). The tv card is stereo, but the internal "phone" conector is mono. The external line-in and line-out goes to the video player, mic goes to the mic for VoIp phone... I would like more conectors, actually. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDi1VtTMYHG2NR9URAn0HAJ4mzvVwhFGM4pY88zM2z+SlHgETVACfcQul /y5rcdEDcPVeZ6L1Bej6UUo= =3Y/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat March 31 2007 05:43, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip>
The thing is, I never explorer that side because I'm not prepared to lose any of the inputs or oputputs, I use them all. I use the internal one for the TV card, in mono (argh!). The tv card is stereo, but the internal "phone" conector is mono. The external line-in and line-out goes to the video player, mic goes to the mic for VoIp phone... I would like more conectors, actually.
It would drive me positively crazy if my system couldn't multiplex audio, Carlos. Why not spring for an add-in sound card? (Let me guess... you've got all the slots populated too!) ;-) Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-03-31 at 10:47 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
It would drive me positively crazy if my system couldn't multiplex audio, Carlos. Why not spring for an add-in sound card? (Let me guess... you've got all the slots populated too!) ;-)
X'-) No, I think I have one left of the three (TV and ethernet). But I would like to get other things first! My machine is a bit sluggish, it is a Pentium IV @ 1800 with 1GiB RAM of DIMM 133 MHz type. I might use it for another 5 years if I can. Then I want an external box for a HD, on usb perhaps - but I only have usb version 1, so it would be slow... so perhaps I would want an ethernet storage box, I have seen a few of them, but not quite up to "my standards" (no security or no linux). So it could be on firewire, which I don't have. Or I might plug in a SATA card... Sound isn't just my priority right now :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDoEatTMYHG2NR9URAgcHAJ4zejEPd5jjXvr+sfdKKyn62ieYOACeMwk1 XGnKD2z0uFciTOwlVKapfc8= =0rwG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 13:12 +0200, I wrote:
Not even root can use my /dev/dsp file:
nimrodel:~ # echo "Hello" | /usr/bin/festival --tts Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
nimrodel:~ # echo Hello > /dev/dsp -bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Ok, it is busy, but by whom?
nimrodel:~ # lsof |grep dsp nimrodel:~ #
It is not opened by anybody!
It appears to be mozilla-firefox (bug #262301). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGF5KXtTMYHG2NR9URAkCsAJ0dTl6aE3BsCfBqlPxL1HFAb7uMDwCeJDTg BQhhKIU8R6OWtutwSVpUQ5c= =T56X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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