Re: artsd on a laptop question
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:30, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 1:38 pm, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
>
> > Now, I've started using artsd and what I see is that none of my
> > sound-using programs (i.e. xmms most noticeably) work when I resume
> > (whereas they did before I was using them with artsdsp). When I resume
> > and press play in xmms, xmms hangs. If I stop xmms and restart it, I
> > get the "device not found" error. If I kill off xmms, then kill off
> > artsd, then restart artsd and xmms, all works wonderfully.
>
> Did it work before if while you were playing something in XMMS?
yes. I've even forgotten to stop xmms from playing a song before I
suspended and then noticed that when I resumed, xmms continued to play
the song. (or maybe this is what you were asking?) =:)
>
> > Also, if I
> > do an "artsshell suspend" in my apm suspend script and restart the sound
> > server on resume with "/usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -m artsmessage -l 3
> > -f&", the sound server does get restarted (as root this time), but xmms
> > is not able to connect to it immediately, nor is it able to connect to
> > it after I restart xmms--it eventually just locks up.
>
> You shouldn't restart artsd as you aren't terminating at, only suspending it,
> it will automatically unsuspend. You should run "artsshell suspend" as the
> user which is running artsd (use su), and if the "Exchange security and
> reference info over the X11 server" option is set the DISPLAY variable will
> need to be set.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, *ding* I think this makes sense. Suspend doesn't shut
down the server, right? It just disconnects it from /dev/dsp? That
would make sense. Before this light bulb went on (just now), I had made
a change to the way artsd is launched from kcontrol and told it to
auto-suspend if no sound was in use for 60 seconds. I then commented
out my /etc/apm/{suspend,resume}*/* files and took out the suspend and
re-launch command and noticed that it works wonderfully now.
And now that I think about it, what I was doing before all of this
nonsense was "killall artsd" (obviously not the right way), and then a
restart on resume. And then when I changed "killall artsd" to
"artsshell suspend" in my suspend script, but still had the re-launch of
artsd in my resume script, I noticed that I then had 2 artsd processes
running after a resume. Both of these incorrect methods resulted in
xmms being unusable until artsd (both of them with the second incorrect
method) was killed and restarted.
=:)
Silly me. Sorry for the verbose message back to the list, but I'm
hoping someone in the future won't make the same silly mistake.
Thanks Tim!
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