FC4-test2 latest: Sound stops (alsa/xmms/crossfade/arts)

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 5/7/05, Patrick Barnes <nman64 at n-man.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> This is probably related to one of a few known bugs.  Have you tried
> disabling mmap mode in the ALSA output plugin?

I'm seeing something very similar playing DVDs in kaffeine (Xine-based
KDE media player). Especially when I switch to or from the menu, but
it also just happened in the middle of playing a disc. Kaffeine stops
playing any sound, then shortly thereafter freezes, and I have to
"kill -9" kaffeine and restart it to make it work again.

Should we comment further on the ALSA bug report, or is this something new?

MEF

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