RE: Problems with xmms.
Ta guys, sorry i've been logged in on my debian box all day (currently
emails are going thru microsoft o/s / exchange server till I can get pop3
account setup for me and set evolution up on Debian box) - so i didn't read
emails until now. I don't get any sound as all once i've added my normal
user account to the audio group. Just that weird noise. I did have a look
the other day at running processes, but didn't see anything out of the
ordinary. I'll double check it again though - maybe it is a daemon issue
with gnome. It would be odd if it was, since Matthew had issues with same
chipset with KDE. I'll have to compare running processes when logged on as
su and spawning xmms, as well as normal user. If I remove normal user from
audio group all sounds cut, so I'm suspecting it's something to do with
adding someone else to that audio group other than root. Really odd. I'll
keep you informed as to what interesting things develop. If it's a daemon
interfering as Kent suspects, should I report this as a bug? If so, is it
gnome, kde or kernel/driver related?
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:weierophinney@griffdog.net]
Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2002 9:29 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; David Pastern
Subject: Re: Problems with xmms.
--Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote
(on Saturday, 14 September 2002, 11:21 PM -0500):
> David Pastern wrote:
> >Well...interesting, i removed normal user from audio group, logged off,
> >logged back on...and problem fixed. Root now has sound again, and nasty
> >noise is gone. Of course normal user doesn't have any sound anymore lol.
> >It seems to be as a byproduct of adding myself to the audio group that
this
> >nasty noise/no music develops. Anyone else on the lists encountered this
> >issue before?
>
> I don't know what wm/environment you're using, but it sounds like maybe
> there's a sound daemon (esound? artsd?) running that's causing problems
> when your user is in the audio group. Try adding your user back to
> audio, then ps for some sound daemon and kill it to see if that makes a
> difference.
If I remember from earlier in the thread, David mentioned that he was
using a via83xx series sound card. My wife's new computer also uses a
via chipset, and I had some difficulty setting up sound for her as well.
I started out having her use KDE, while I would log in with blackbox.
To test the sound, I logged in as myself, and then spawned xmms, and
everything sounded great. However, when she logged in, it 1) was WAY too
loud, and 2) had a horrible crackle. I thought at first that we'd blown
the speakers, but such was not the case.
The point of this story: it turned out artsd (kde's sound daemon) was
causing the problems. I briefly tried esd (enlightenment sound daemon),
and had similar results.
I _believe_ there's a setting in kde's control panel that controls
whether or not artsd is started -- I didn't actually use this solution
(my wife wanted to use blackbox instead of kde), so YMMV.
--Matthew
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