Adam Warner wrote:
> A recent upgrade must have stopped these programs from functioning and I
> can't isolate it (when I say recent it could be at least 10 days since
> I've tried running xmms, etc).
>
> Normal system sounds are playing fine. I just can't play audio using any
> of the applications listed. There is no error message. xmms, mq3 and
> freeamp just lock up (I installed mq3, freeamp and mp3blaster to check
> that it wasn't just xmms causing the problem).
>
> My sound card's a SBPCI64 (ES1370) and support is compiled into my
> kernel (2.4.15-pre4).
>
> This is under GNOME. I have found I can play an MP3 under KDE using
> noatun. But xmms still locks up.
My impression is that esd is locking /dev/dsp such that anything else
that tries to open it hangs indefinitely.
I tried a few tests, such as the following:
strace xboing
strace play file.au
strace cp file.au /dev/dsp
All hung while trying to open /dev/dsp. Killing esd resolves the
problem. Which is fine with me, since I hate having my desktop
environment play sounds for things like opening/closing windows,
selecting menu items, and so on.
I just now went into the GNOME control center, and I find that the
"Enable sound server startup" option under Multimedia has mysteriously
become enabled; I had it turned off some time ago. I've turned it off,
and things seem okay now.
Craig
