* Ross Boylan [Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:11:25 -0800]:
> A few seconds after KDE starts up I get a pop up window with "Error
> "Sound server fatal error:
> cpu overload, aborting"
I got one of these about two weeks ago.
> Some clues:
> The problem started coincident with upgrading to a new kernel (2.4.24,
> Debianized) with a new alsa-source (1.0.1-1). I also patches for
> evms, device-mapper, i2c, and lm-sensors.
Yep, the culprit seems to be alsa 1.0.1. I did the very same
upgrade.
> I recall reading on debian-kde there were some issues with alsa
> support, but I can't find that now. In the past it's worked fine,
> though it may have been using the OSS compatibility layer.
I found that the problem, actually, was the OSS compatibility layer.
If you select in Control Panel -> ... -> Sound system -> Audio
device OSS or Autodetect, you get the error. If you select ALSA
there, if just works fine.
Seems like if there are some glitches with ALSA 1.0.1 OSS emulation,
or at least when mixed with arts.
Really can't say anything about the causes but just that ALSA as the
audio device solved the problem for me.
Cheers.
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