Gnome sound problem after many hours (was Re: Xine startup problem under FC5)

[Samuel Díaz García]

Any help?

Samuel Díaz García escribió:
> For example, I reboot my laptop, and some hour later, I try to use some 
> application that uses sound. Messages about /dev/null used or 
> application crash or xine lock while trying something accurs.
> 
> Is as gnome lost the sound device and the apps don't find it.
> 
> I allwais need to restart genome (logout and login) to the sound returns.
> 
> Another app that crash is gaim (it locks), or k3b (it "uses" /dev/null), 
> xine locks, etc...
> 
> I detect the problem in the morning. I have configured xscreensaver 
> instead of gnome-screensaver because xine knows how to lock xscreensaver 
> when I play fullscreen movies.
> 
> Any help about the sound under gnome? It is horrible to stop browsers, 
> amule, and many other aplications and then restart gnome.
> 
> Any hint?
> 
> Gilboa Davara escribió:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 00:37 +0200, Samuel Díaz García wrote:
>>> any help?
>>>
>>> Samuel Díaz García escribió:
>>>> I'm using gnome and when I double click over a movie file, xine open 
>>>> the file and reproduce it.
>>>>
>>>> That is the normal behaviour, but when my laptop is online for many 
>>>> ours and I try to do the same (double click over a movie file), xine 
>>>> goes to lookup in the splash window and don't open the movie.
>>>>
>>>> I had seen into:
>>>>
>>>> /var/log/gdm/*log
>>>> /var/log/messages
>>>> /var/log/Xorg*log
>>>>
>>>> files without success.
>>>>
>>>> I think the problem is with alsa, because sometimes, some apps 
>>>> (after hours of activity) can't open the device, but searching the 
>>>> logs, can't found any messages.
>>>>
>>>> Could anybody help me?
>>>>
>>
>> Sound like a sound device lock problem.
>> Open the Xine configuration and look for the sound configuration: How is
>> configured?
>>
>> Gilboa
>>
> 

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