Hello, Joost Yervante Damad wrote:
Can you verify if you can play any other sound when mplayer is running?
Yes, that works, as does starting mplayer after timidity is already running.
Can you verify if it happens always or sporadically?
The problem is always reproducible with the described setup (mplayer as user, timidity as root). It cannot be reproduced with xmms2 playing audio or alsamixer open, so it is probably some bad interaction between the opening modes used by mplayer and timidity.
It is a problem for timidity mainly because system upgrades should never fail because an user has a particular program open, even if mplayer could be more cooperative here. It might be interesting to get some input from the ALSA folks.
Do you have an .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf ?
Neither file exists. Simon