The audio hanging I described is on an IBM Intellistation MPro, with NT 4.0 
and service pack 6a - sound breaks pretty quickly. On my laptop have 
Windows 98 SE and audio 'seems' much more robust -- I didn't push it that 
hard though.

Danny Oppenheim


At 06:56 PM 4/17/01 -0600, you wrote:


>"Daniel V. Oppenheim" wrote:
> >
> > Running Squeak 3.0 and 3.1 alpha (with GREAT delight) on Windows NT 4.0.
> > After a while audio playback breaks -- just by triggering flap open-close
> > sounds, etc. -- and I get "The specified device is already in use. Wait
> > until it is free, and then try again." error message in the pop-up
> > emergency pane at the bottom of the Squeak screen. At this point Windows
> > Apps can no longer play audio (i.e. Media Player does not produce audio
> > even though it appears to play and no error message is generated in
> > Windows). It seems to me that Squeak does not always properly close the
> > audio playback driver. The only option I have at this point is to reboot.
> > This happens very consistently, within 5-10 minutes of entering the image,
> > though I have not been able to replicate a repeatable scenario for it 
> to occur.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this?
>
>Yes, it happens to me in NT4.0 on my laptop, but not on my workstation.
>My workstation is running NT4.0sp5 I believe. I've seen the same thing
>on another laptop that was docked to be used as a workstation.  It was
>running NT4.0 as well, but I don't know what SP it has.
>
>I'll check to see what SP my laptop is running and then maybe we can
>figure out if it's something to do with a laptop or the patch level of
>NT that you're running.
>
>Are you seeing this on a laptop??
>
>Steve Gilbert
> >
> > Danny Oppenheim
> >
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> >
> > Dr. Daniel V.
> > Oppenheim
> >
> >         Computer Music Center
> >         IBM T.J. Watson Research Center      phone: (914) 945-1989
> >         P. O. Box 218 (or Route 134)         fax:   (914) 945-3434
> >         Yorktown Heights, NY 10598           www.research.ibm.com/music

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Dr. Daniel V. 
Oppenheim 

	Computer Music Center
	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	     phone: (914) 945-1989
	P. O. Box 218 (or Route 134)	     fax:   (914) 945-3434
	Yorktown Heights, NY 10598	     www.research.ibm.com/music