Open Sound System

I think i have the same problem too with OSS 2002 on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, sometimes when i execute soundon the system hangs... Can you login on an another console or is your system totally unusable? If you can, try to run top please... you should see kldload blocked in STATE "oss" Regards,...

Hi, I did some experiments today and i found that sometimes mplayer freeze when oss enters in MUTEX_INIT() and sx_init is called (os_freebsd.h): #define MUTEX_INIT(osdev, mutex, hier) \ do { \ mutex = malloc(sizeof(*mutex), M_DEVBUF, M_WAITOK | M_ZERO); \ sx_init(mutex, "oss"); \ } while (...

Hi, finally i installed the modified oss b2002 (with USE_SX_LOCK enabled) on my FreeBSD 8.0 laptop. I tried to play a video with mplayer but unfortunately it freezes after some minutes... according to top it is blocked with "STATE=oss". It is a very annoying problem... Best regards, Mauriz...

Hi, I downloaded the OSS build 2002 source code from ftp.freebsd.org, i modified bsddef.h in order to enable USE_SX_LOCK but now i have a little problem: When i try to run the configure script i get this error: bsd%./configure Using the default script srcdir=/usr/home/maurizio/oss-tmp/oss-v4.2-build...

Hi,

yesterday i installed FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE with OSS version 2002.

I tried to play a video with mplayer but after 2/3 hours a kernel panic occurred.
Now i will try to manually compile OSS with USE_SX_LOCK uncommented.

Regards,
Maurizio Lombardi

>It's already in mainline. Which version of OSS are you using? At the moment i don't have any FreeBSD machine, i remember i had this problem some months ago with version 7.2... Now i'm planning to switch back my laptop to FreeBSD when version 8.0 will be released and this bug was crucial for me. Fre...

>[...]but I wanted to let you know that the patch you gave me on Friday seems to be working great. >I haven't had a single kernel panic or application lockup since I rebuilt OSS with the patch. Very interesting! I had the same problem with FreeBSD 7.2... Is this patch scheduled to be included into t...