Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. John Drouhard I think I'm OK now, it's certainly better. I have Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup enabled. Should I take this out? How do I put it onto OSS or Autodetect? The Sound I/O is on Autodetect - is this the one you mean? Sorry to be so clueless Anne It's ok to have aRtsd running on boot. Yes, the Sound I/O is where you would specify Autodetect or OSS. What I suggest, is that you try each of them (Autodetect, OSS, and ALSA), and try XMMS with them. Which ever one works the best, should be the one you use. As long as sound comes out of the programs you want it to, and it sounds ok, then you should leave everything alone. :-) Talk to you later! Thanks for trying to make things clearer. I'll experiment, as you say. It definitely seems to be an aRts problem, as once again this morning I had to do an aRts 'hang up' and re-login to get things working again, so I'll try the options other than Auto and see what happens. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 8:54 am, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:46 am, you wrote: Something went wrong overnight. I tried to start XMMS this morning, and it froze. I tried a fresh login, then a re-boot, but I'm without sound again. What should I check now, please? Anne Hi Anne, I am going to be out of town until Monday, but I suggest you try everything you had before this morning to see if it works again. Try changing to autodetect, ALSA, and OSS and just play around with things until they work. I'll be back Monday! John Drouhard I'm beginning to wonder if there is a power-saving problem cutting in here. I have a suspicion that I find it silent after I have been away from my desk for a while. The monitor closes down, and it is quite possible that there is some other power management goin on. I'm going to try to find out what is happening on these lines, just in case. If I can I'll switch anything like that off and see if it makes a difference. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils during the actual installation of the OS, then sound works fine in all cd players and midi drivers are listed. Don't know why that is, but it is. (now there were two very bad sentences, hope they are understandable). For what it is worth it may solve somebody elses' sound problems. I found I can't NOT install alsa when I load KDE iirc. Is that the case? Thx. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Friday 05 July 2002 08:06 pm, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils during the actual installation of the OS, then sound works fine in all cd players and midi drivers are listed. Don't know why that is, but it is. (now there were two very bad sentences, hope they are understandable). For what it is worth it may solve somebody elses' sound problems. I found I can't NOT install alsa when I load KDE iirc. Is that the case? Thx. Femme Not as far as I can tell. I use the flat list always, to pick and choose what gets into the install and those two alsa packages I alsa leave out. Ha! Sometimes I just can't help it. Anyway, when looking at file manager installable they are both available to be installed, ergo they are not. And, KDE runs just fine without them on my desktop. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 10:32 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. John Drouhard I think I'm OK now, it's certainly better. I have Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup enabled. Should I take this out? How do I put it onto OSS or Autodetect? The Sound I/O is on Autodetect - is this the one you mean? Sorry to be so clueless Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: I keep getting error messages llike Artsd should run with realtime scheduling, but it does not (is artswrapper suid root?). The aRts sound daemon will not autosuspend right now since there are active modeles. SounServer shows Run soundserver with realtime priority ticked. to check and see if artwrapper is running suid root, type: ls -l $(which artswrapper) If you get this, -rwxr-xr-x1 root root It is bad. This is good. -rwsr-xr-x1 root root To get the s, follow these commands, chown root $(which artswrapper) chmod 4755 $(which artswrapper) That'll fix the real time sceduling error, and I do advise using Full Duplex. The sound quality is not good without it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 11:27 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: I keep getting error messages llike Artsd should run with realtime scheduling, but it does not (is artswrapper suid root?). The aRts sound daemon will not autosuspend right now since there are active modeles. SounServer shows Run soundserver with realtime priority ticked. to check and see if artwrapper is running suid root, type: ls -l $(which artswrapper) If you get this, -rwxr-xr-x1 root root It is bad. This is good. -rwsr-xr-x1 root root To get the s, follow these commands, chown root $(which artswrapper) chmod 4755 $(which artswrapper) That'll fix the real time sceduling error, and I do advise using Full Duplex. The sound quality is not good without it. Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst browsing the documentation for XMMS, I checked the XMMS Preferences Window. I foud that the Output Plugin being used was OSS, although aRTS is running. The documentation says that it is very important to get this right, but I can find no way of changing it. It seems all to easy to crash aRTS - perhaps because of this conflict? Can anyone help, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com chkconfig --del alsa Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
