iBook2: sound blocked by pbbuttonsd [partly solved]

Massimo B. · Last edited by Massimo B. on Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:02 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello.

It's weird but pbbuttonsd blocks the sound hardware. I noticed earlier that sometimes the alsa sound is going to be blocked. Now I can reproduce:

If I start audacious (or aplay or something..) it plays fine. Using pbbuttonsd volume hotkeys while playing changes volume. If I quit audacious and start again it only works if I didn't touch volume keys in the meantime. Otherwise I get an error by audacious or by aplay like this:

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Does it happen without gtkpbbuttons?
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Massimo B. · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

Interesting, JoseJX. It doesn't occur without gtkpbbuttonsd. Should I point a bugreport to gtkpbbuttonsd?

First I don't need to kill gtkpbbuttonsd as it quits if a new one is started or pbbuttonsd restarts.
After some tests I found out: The blockage only occurs if gtkpbbuttonsd runs in daemon mode. Don't you guys use this tool? Otherwise I don't have any information about brightness or volume.
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Actually, I'm using macosd right now, so I didn't notice it. I'll take a look.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

I wasn't aware of macosd, I will try this. Any advantage over pbbuttonsd? The theme looks the same.
But I can't emerge that:

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Hmm, seems that vapier broke the tree. :p It looks like he moved evas to his overlay, so grab his overlay and it should work.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

Well it took some ~ppc stuff to get emerged:

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

I didn't recommend macosd, I just said that it was an alternative :p

I haven't had a chance to look into the issue with gtkpbbuttons. Once I do, I'll let you know.
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jerry arns · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks paoleela!

For sometime now, I needed to restart alsasound and pbbuttonds once in while because, sound wouldn't work any more.

I can totally reproduce what you describe:

launch xine => sound ok
stop xine
re-launch xine => sound ok
stop xine
change volume level with volume key
re-launch xine => sound KO

Same scenario but no gtkpbbuttons launched: no problem!

[ebuild R ] app-laptop/pbbuttonsd-0.7.9 USE="alsa (-acpi) -debug -ibam -oss" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] app-laptop/gtkpbbuttons-0.6.9 USE="-gnome" 0 kB

So I will drop gtkpbbuttonsd for now (and miss the loow battery alert...)
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Okay, it's not gtkpbbuttons fault. It's this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118600

I'll ping Diego and make sure he's okay with applying the patch, but if you're antsy, feel free to apply the audiolib patch yourself and recompile audiolib. I can't reproduce the problem here after doing that.

I've also made a patch for macosd, if you're interested in using that instead, which fixes the display bars, get it here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/brightfix.patch
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Hmm, actually it seems that it didn't fix the problem. Starting with the -d option is what breaks it. I'll keep digging, but for now, instead of using the -d option, just start it in the background with &
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Massimo B. · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

Ok. No one noticed before

I prepared a bugreport.

macosd isn't a choice as I said. The scaling is wrong. The theme is the same anyway.
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praveen · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 43

I posted about this sometime back. I think its related to gtkpbbuttonsd

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-515930-highlight-.html

I had some email communication with the developer of gtkpbbuttonsd but I did not hear from him afterwards.

Massimo B. · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

I think the only downside when running without -d is that there is no sys logging.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: macosd gone

macosd has disappeared now from portage or any overlay.
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