FC4-test2 latest: Sound stops (alsa/xmms/crossfade/arts)
Patrick Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com
Sat May 7 01:09:36 UTC 2005
Paul Dickson wrote:
>After xmms has been running for about a day, it will not start playing a
>new track. This can happen either while xmms is playing or pressing play
>after xmms has been stopped for a while.
>
>Getting it to work again requires exiting xmms, then "killall xmms", and
>then a "alsactl restore", and finbally restarting xmms. If I don't do
>the killall, then the buttons on the side of the notebook won't control
>xmms ("Couldn't grab XF86Audio{Next,Prev,Play,Stop): another client may
>already have done so"). Before killing xmms today (after exiting the
>program) there where two process remaining: one started yesterday in
>state SLl, the other started 6 hours earlier in state Ss.
>
>The crossfade plugin is using the output plugin "ALSA 1.2.10 output
>plugin".
>
>Ogg123 can play music while xmms can't.
>
>Last week, while playing Konquest this happened and I got a lot of aRts
>errors stateing something like the server was too busy. Eventually, I
>got a big error window that said I could disable aRts (or somnething to
>that effect) and I haven't seen these errors since.
>
>Should I file a bugzilla report? Against which package?
>
>I'm using:
> xmms-crossfade-0.3.8-4
> xmms-1.2.10-15
> alsa-utils-1.0.9rc2-1
>
> -Paul
>
>
>
This is probably related to one of a few known bugs. Have you tried
disabling mmap mode in the ALSA output plugin?
-Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com
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