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

[Samuel Díaz García]

Appears to be a problem with the sound with GAIM, when GAIM is running, 
no other application can use the sound.

A posible workaround (I expect it works) is disable the sound in GAIM, 
but I need the sound with gaim when I'm working to take care of messages 
received.

Any more stable solution?

Thanks

Samuel Díaz García escribió:
> 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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