Sorry about the length of this.
I have SL 4.x and the sound is a bit crazy here. KDE never plays a
startup sound, although firefox seems to manage OK. The default sound
device does not always seem to be available. I ran startx >> xorg.err
2>&1 and here are some of the sound entries:
Starting up:
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed:
Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
Klipper is already running!
And finishing:
startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 16 object references alive.
- Arts::SampleStorage
- Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD
- Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD
- Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD
- Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD
- Arts::Synth_RECORD
- Arts::Synth_BUS_UPLINK
- Arts::Synth_PLAY
- Arts::StereoVolumeControl
- Arts::StereoEffectStack
- Arts::Synth_BUS_DOWNLINK
- Arts::SoundServerV2
- Arts::Synth_BUS_UPLINK
- Arts::Synth_AMAN_PLAY
- Arts::AudioManagerClient
- Arts::MidiManager
warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 113 types alive.
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
waiting for X server to shut down
Sound is unpredictable, and low. Alsamixer is set near 100%. If I run
system-config-soundcard from an xterm and play a sound, I get this:
Card 0 Driver snd_cmipci...
Unmuting ...
Play. Volume master(0) to 23
Play. Volume master(1) to 23
Cap. Switch pcm(0) to 0
Play. Switch pcm(0) to 1
Play. Volume pcm(0) to 23
Cap. Switch pcm(1) to 0
Play. Switch pcm(1) to 1
Play. Volume pcm(1) to 23
Cap. Switch synth(0) to 0
Play. Switch synth(0) to 1
Play. Volume synth(0) to 23
Cap. Switch synth(1) to 0
Play. Switch synth(1) to 1
Play. Volume synth(1) to 23
Cap. Switch cd(0) to 1
Play. Switch cd(0) to 1
Play. Volume cd(0) to 23
Cap. Switch cd(1) to 1
Play. Switch cd(1) to 1
Play. Volume cd(1) to 23
Cap. Switch mic(0) to 0
Cap. Volume mic(0) to 0
Play. Switch mic(0) to 0
Play. Volume mic(0) to 0
Unmuting snd_cmipci...
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' :
Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
[dec@genius ~]$
[dec@genius ~]$
sometimes I have to wait for some time for the sound to play, sometimes
it plays on exiting X :-o. Where is it getting 23 from?
BTW, Evolution is throwing errors continually, and bad window parameter
errors also come nearly continuously. The other detail is the modules -
the sound ones: I am convinced it doesn't need all of these!
joydev 10241 0
uhci_hcd 31065 0
snd_cmipci 33349 0
snd_pcm_oss 49017 0
snd_mixer_oss 17985 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 96841 2 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9673 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 11329 1 snd_cmipci
snd_timer 29765 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9925 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_cmipci
snd_rawmidi 26597 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 55461 10
snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,
snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 1 snd
I'm just back to distributions after linuxfromscratch. What do I check?
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With Best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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