In article <Pine.NEB.4.30.0103150102320.356-100000@ismaelda.reinoud.kasbah> you write:
>i'm currently expirimenting with speakfreely on the Shark but i ran into
>trouble :( ...
>
>recording goed fine as does playing back BUT ... the two programs (mike
>and player) can't open /dev/audio at the same time ...
>
>The audio chip reports in dmesg that it is full duplex so i guess the
>driver is to blame ?

I have a feeling that this is actually a consequence of the way the MI audio
driver works.  Look at audio_open() in sys/dev/audio.c.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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