Jim, I had this problem for a bit, but just recently cvsup'd source and saw a sound.c change. I rebuilt world and I haven't had that annoying buzzing since....
Not sure if it will help you but its probably worth a try... later Michael Mercer Jim Arnold wrote: > Sometimes when I use Gaim and I get too many sounds > going at once my sound card gets confused and starts a > loud buzzing that can only be stopped by a reboot. > This seems to happen when two people IM me at the same > time. > > I turned off the sound in Gaim for all but incoming > messages but I still have that problem on occasion. > Having to reboot for this is pretty lame. > > My sysctl.conf is set to: hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 > Xmms uses dev/dsp0.3 and Gaim uses /drv/dsp0.1 > > Here's my audio card: > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1373-B> port 0xe800-0xe83f irq 9 at > device 11.0 on pci0 > > The above did eliminate those annoying messages that > another app had grabbed the sound card. Any ideas on > how to get this to stop? Is it just a byproduct of a > cheap sound card? > > Thanks, > Jim > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
