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cvk
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 5:28 am Post subject: artsd blocks alsa |
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When the arts daemon is loaded, alsa hangs and I can't play no music with xmms. I know it worked before but I can't remember how :-/
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furanku
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Which Audio I/O Plugin in xmms? For me it works with alsa0.9, oss and aRts (although the xmms-arts package is masked) fine.
Which aRts configuration set in the control center? ps aux | grep artsd ? |
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cvk
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Dunno why but it works now using OSS output, although CPU use goes straight to 100% on my Athlon XP1500. I noticed that alsa-based games (e.g. vendetta) don't have any sound when artsd is loaded. The only workaround seems to be to unload the artsd before starting the game :/
Here's the output of ps:
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cvk 11822 2.3 1.6 12352 8364 ? S 13:11 6:15 artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -D /dev/dsp -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
cvk 11914 0.0 1.6 12352 8364 ? S 13:12 0:00 artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -D /dev/dsp -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
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Does it have to be loaded twice?
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EliasP
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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artsd claims the sounddevice at startup, so you`ll have to pipe all programms with sound output now through artsd..
you can do this on the following way
or look for a arts-output plugin in the concerning program, eg.
XMMS --> emerge xmms-arts
MPlayer --> mplayer -Ao arts
Xine --> xine -a arts
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Only if your soundcard does have 2 or more soundchannels, you can setup aRts so, that it claims the second sounddevice and all other programs still use the first channel...
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furanku
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Hmmm... I just have one instance of artsd running, and can't think of a good reason to run two (and I don't have problems to run xmms with oss, alsa and arts IO) --- I'm not an expert but I could imagine that that's a reason for your problems. Try to kill one of them and see if it's better. If so look where the second is started.
Wait, I'll try to start a second one on my box...
I get an error message when I try to start a second artsd:
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There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...
Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:
/tmp/mcop-fhellmut/Arts_SoundServerV2
/tmp/mcop-fhellmut/Arts_SoundServer
/tmp/mcop-fhellmut/Arts_SimpleSoundServer
/tmp/mcop-fhellmut/Arts_PlayObjectFactory
/tmp/mcop-fhellmut/Arts_AudioManager
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So I guess, that's one more clue that having two of them is no good thing to do...
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Artsd should autosuspend and release the sound device when it does. It will not suspend however if you have it set to full-duplex mode. Turn off full-duplex and set autosuspend to something very short and you should have no trouble with alsa applications. I like to run everything I can through artsdsp haowver just to save on conflicts. Some apps don't like that though, so I have to run those regular. |
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