On Monday 09 August 2004 19:34, Daniel Eckl wrote:
- The external player can be "artsplay", too, which connects to the local running artsd. This daemon get's the play request and open's the sound device again and plays sound. This is possible, but should give the very same effect than not using an external player itself: Sound playing through artsd.
So I'm a bit puzled what could be the reason for your problem. If artsplay plays good as external player, then the sound should work without expernal player configuration, too, because it uses artsd directly.
So you can check if your artsd, which is running in suspend mode, gets blocked by another application using the soundcard.
Hi - that's what I thought ,too. As an additional remark: The 'test sound' button in the control center sound system module always works with external player on or off. I did run several things at once: First I started realplay. Then I switched off the auto-suspend feature for artsd and let artsplay play some longer .ogg file. After that I started 'play' with the .ogg file. Result: I hear the radio (realplay), the first .ogg file (artsplay) and the second .ogg file (play) simultaneously. /data/downloads/firefox-installer # lsof -nP |grep "pcm\|dsp\|dmix\|snd" gives kdeinit 7550 gunterl 15u CHR 116,0 15635 /dev/snd/controlC0 realplay 8720 gunterl 10w CHR 14,3 4533 /dev/dsp0 artsd 9001 gunterl mem CHR 116,16 15740 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p artsd 9001 gunterl mem CHR 116,24 15739 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c artsd 9001 gunterl 10u CHR 116,16 15740 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p artsd 9001 gunterl 11u CHR 116,24 15739 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c sox 9028 gunterl 4w CHR 14,3 4533 /dev/dsp0 'play' did not work simultaneously with realplay when I tried to play a '.wav' file (message: 'sox: Unable to sync dsp'), artsplay however did play .wav files simulataneously with realplay. The mixer info gives /data/downloads/firefox-installer # amixer info Card default 'rev60'/'VIA 823x rev60 at 0x2c00, irq 22' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9758/59' Components : 'AC97a' Controls : 52 Simple ctrls : 35 I don't have nearly enough knowledge to understand how Linux exactly connects to the soundcard but maybe these outputs are useful for you or someone else. For me it is not a problem that I have to set artsplay as external player for notifications and the current behaviour is what I want: Hear my favorite radio station and also hear system notifications at the same time. If all this is interesting for other people, I could try to locate the exact reason for my system behaviour, but for that someone would have to give me some guidelines (if the above info is not enough). BTW: CPU is AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Motherboard is d1607 from Fujitsu-Siemens (VIA K8T800/VT8237 Southbridge) SuSE version is 9.1 Pro 64bit Cheers gl