[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: I wonder why esound is deprecated - afaik it was halfway new wasn't it? Testing with aplay the sounds are played serialized - not like esd. Also - if I think of this some more I assume it to be a problem of alsa - because

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: Thanks for checking. So let's test whether dmix works for you: killall esd aplay /usr/share/sounds/login.wav & sleep 1 aplay /usr/share/sounds/login.wav Does the second aplay call block? i. e. can you hear two sounds on

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: I upgraded to dapper and at least the esdplay test plays the sounds on top of each other. But totem-xine still gives me an error. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: Doing the latter I hear nothing (yes, I have the levels on max). I tried to switch from totem-xine to totem-gstreamer (which is no real alternative because it is far to unperformant) and it gives me a "Failed to play: Co

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: Also, can you please try something: esdplay /usr/share/sounds/login.wav & then wait for about two seconds, and execute it again? Do you hear two sounds on top of each other, or does the second sound wait until the fir

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: This should be much better in Dapper; esd is not used by default any more. However, it seems that totem-xine does not use esd for video playback, right? Can you convince it to use ALSA or esd, instead of e. g. OSS? -- des

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: So I checked again and although I didn't have the metapackage installed - the libarts was installed (it's a dependency of rosegarden). So I removed the libarts - but I still get the same message. -- desktop-bugs mailing l

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: Oh and another thing. This seems to happen only when the video (dvd) is trying to output at least 5.1 surround sound. When the video is in stereo only it works fine. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: Arts is not installed. I run Ubuntu Breezy. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Comment: You are using Ubuntu desktop or Kubuntu desktop? Do you have artsd running in the background (if you know how to check for that)? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

[Bug 36932] Audio device busy after first use

Public bug reported: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36932 Affects: esound libesd0 (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed Description: When switching to esd (from alsa) in multimedia settings I get some annoying errors. When I for example watc