[comp.sys.next] DSP Problem???

ck32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris Wei-Tae Kim) (11/07/90)

    I have a short question for those of you who might can solve or had
same problem. I just aquired a second hand 030 cube and have a problem
with getting my PlayScore to work. When I load a score file and click on
play it returns me with an alert saying that "Can't open DSP" I not
really sure what it mean and can't figure it out. I hope it's the
problem with program setting and not with the computer itself since I
just got it. Can you please email me with suggestions. Thanks 

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goose@surf.sics.bu.oz.au (Ralph Schwarten) (11/07/90)

From article <MbBqwFy00Uh7I4x0oE@andrew.cmu.edu>, by ck32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris Wei-Tae Kim):
> 
>     I have a short question for those of you who might can solve or had
> same problem. I just aquired a second hand 030 cube and have a problem
> with getting my PlayScore to work. When I load a score file and click on
> play it returns me with an alert saying that "Can't open DSP" I not
> really sure what it mean and can't figure it out. I hope it's the
> problem with program setting and not with the computer itself since I
> just got it. Can you please email me with suggestions. Thanks 
> 
> ==Chris,

You Probably have another app open that is using the DSP
(e.g. Mandelbrot, Saturn, DSP debugger etc).

Try Closing all of your apps including the scoreplayer, and then
re-launch scoreplayer again.  Sometimes if the dsp is being used and you
try to run another app which uses the dsp, you will get the "Can't Open
DSP" message.  If you quit the app which was using the dsp originally,
and again try the second app, you may get the same message because the
app may be in a bad state. Quit that app and re-launch it and you
shouldn't have any problems.

Best of Luck.

Ralph Schwarten
(Hoping to be the first NeXT support person in oz.. If NeXT start
selling machines here :-) )
Computing and Information Technology
Bond University
Gold Coast
Queensland
Australia
e-mail/internet: goose@hal.nmg.bu.oz.au

** Co-founder of Australia's First official NeXT user group- OzNeXT **

iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) (11/08/90)

To the best of my  knowledge, the DSP availability is  regulated by a file  in
/tmp. If after closing all apps,  you still can't  grab the DSP, try to delete
this file. It has some obvious name, like *dsp*.

/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu