On 09 Nov, 07:39:10 PM, Arun K. Khan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 18:44 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > > hello, > > i have debian 3.0 installed on my AMD 2600+ system. i'm using the alsa > > sound server, and have the nvidia-nforce2 soundcard. i'm getting the > > following problem with my sound server. > > when i try to run any music using either xmms or amarok, the system kinda > > hangs for a few seconds. i say "kinda" because the sound keeps on playing, > > but nothing else works for quite some time. i cant cycle between windows, > > can't open new applications. the only thing i can do is to use the amarok > > global shortcut to stop the current song, which stops after about a min or > > so, and then the system starts functioning properly. logging off or even > > restarting the m/c doesn't help. > > googling suggested that only one application can use the sound system at a > > time, so i should disable the sound server usage in KDE (for notifications, > > kalarm, etc), but that didn't help. and neither did the other suggestion, > > which was to use alsaconf to reconfigure the sound server. > > > > I have experienced similar symptoms with the artsd sound daemon. > Are you using KDE as your desktop? Are you running artsd? If so, > suggest you disable arts (KDE Control Panel>Sound System) and configure > Amarok to use another engine e.g. xine engine. > thanks for the suggestion, but in my system, i have already disabled the sound server (so kalarm, etc can't be used :( ), also, i'm already using the xine engine for amarok/xmms. even this doesn't seem to help > HTH, > --akk > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
-- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- Life is not the amount of breaths you take, its the moments that take your breath away --Hitch -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
