Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:04 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Playing sound before your desktop session is started is simply not the > > use case PulseAudio is designed for. > > On that note. Having the login window trying to announce it's arrival, > w

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Playing sound before your desktop session is started is simply not the > use case PulseAudio is designed for. On that note. Having the login window trying to announce it's arrival, which prior versions used to do, at least, seems a bad idea

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
Oh, and I forgot: Nigel Henry wrote: > related problem, as when pulseaudio is disabled, playing the tune above, > which is started from /etc/rc.local, and continues post login until > completion, there are no problems with playing sound apps on either KDE, > or Gnome. s/sound apps/one sound app a

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nigel Henry wrote: > aplay -D hw:0 /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav This takes up the hw:0 device for your aplay command... > The problem now, is that the tune is playing when I login to either Gnome, > or KDE, and continues to completion when logged in, but after the tune > finishes, I have no

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 22 February 2009 16:22, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 16:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay > > to play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. > > > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav > > > > I

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 16:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay to > play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav > > I had to disable pulseaudio, by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio,

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/22/09, Nigel Henry wrote: > Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay to > play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav > > I had to disable pulseaudio, by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, otherwise > the tune wou

Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Nigel Henry
Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay to play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav I had to disable pulseaudio, by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, otherwise the tune wouldn't play, but perhaps further aplay opti