I'm having the same symptoms, different areas.. same disease? I was curious, and using Root has fixed the problem, at least as far as my display indicated... could this be a permission issue?
Mplayer, (K)Ubuntu Hardy. Incoming spam (I control-c'd out of the programs, that's where the signal comes from): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ mplayer -quiet Inventions.mp3 MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Inventions.mp3. Audio file file format detected. ========================================================================== Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) ========================================================================== E: shm.c: shm_open() failed: Permission denied AO: [pulse] Failed to connect to server: Connection refused AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ sudo mplayer -quiet Inventions.mp3 MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Inventions.mp3. Audio file file format detected. ========================================================================== Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] Failed to connect to server: Connection refused AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio -- gnome-sound-properties cannot set sound preferences https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258703 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs