Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
Florian Philipp napsal(a): I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem that only one application can access the audio output at a time. If I start a second app (for example playing a video with Kaffeine while Amarok runs but is idle) the second application reports that the device does not work. Is this normal behavior? How can I fix it? Maybe it's an issue with ALSA but before I investigate this option, I'd like to hear a works for me from other users. I had the same problem. I found the right solution here http://noneus.de/?p=50 Miroslav
Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow
Michal Kurgan napsal(a): Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel (2.6.12) and sync mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat filesystem. This is my case, but i want to have sth like sync when using removable devices, is there any option to do this? I much prefer that i see that sth is copied, not only then when i will try unmount device (in this case i don't know if there are any problems, earlier with sync i saw transfer rate, and this is what i want) This behaviour is caused by change in the vfat driver. It now respects the sync option and the slow speed is caused by frequent updating of the FAT table. Some info can be found here: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html The only solution seem to be to use the async option. -- Miroslav Flídr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow
Michal Kurgan napsal(a): Exactly this is the problem... so sync every sector. I have one question, how this work earlier? With sync i know when files where copied in realtime, not after the umount command (there is info that fat filesystem ignore sync option, then why it works differently with and without). IMHO the old behaviour was that it synchronized the files and only upon unmount the FAT table. Most suprising is that on gentoo we use hald, by default it uses sync option, as in my case. Whe developers made such big change and don't inform I think all major distros so far use sync. anyone about this. Yes , there are some info but only in bugzillas reports by users who spotted it. Yes there is not many info about this problem. When I encountered the problem I lost many hours looking for the cause and solution of the problem. So where will by default it will work flawless... I doubt that it will be changed in the near future :(. -- Miroslav Flídr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
