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.
thanks for the help in advance :)
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.
HTH, --akk
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
On 11/9/06, 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.
First of all debian 3.0 is woody. which is the previous stable release of Debian, released July 19, 2002.
So it's high time to upgrade.
On 09 Nov, 03:22:14 PM, Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 11/9/06, 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.
First of all debian 3.0 is woody. which is the previous stable release of Debian, released July 19, 2002.
So it's high time to upgrade.
thanks for the suggestion, but, frankly, i don't believing in upgrading to a new release just because it is available. if you would have suggested upgradation of a particular server/application, then that was a different issue. i guess, going by your own suggestion, that if you are using any one of FC or ubuntu, you must be upgrading your whole OS every 4-6 months <snip>
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Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:
if you would have suggested upgradation of a particular server/application, then that was a different issue.
Please wrap your line to 72.
Go through the list archives and read my mail titled "Debian 3.1 rocks". In that you will find a link that tells what ALSA related packages you need to update and you can do it through apt-get or its gui version. See if that helps.
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Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:
Go through this link and update the packages just to remove any doubts.
http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html#a36
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