On Sunday 03 November 2002 05:30 pm, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > On Sunday 03 November 2002 03:06, Leon Brooks wrote: > > On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:47 am, David Walser wrote: > > Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The recent Konqueror ( 3.1 rc1 ) just hangs when trying to load > > > Netscape plugins. The nspluginviewer process is in the 'D' state, > > > probably blocking some system resources, and the worst is that > > > there is no way to remove such process but by rebooting the system. > > > Anybody with the same problem?
> > Probably locking on sound. Try killing your sound daemon (probably artsd) > > and see what happens. > > When Konqueror is already locked, there is no help to kill artsd. After I > try to kill it, even 'ps' just stalls there, and there is even no > possibility to reboot - the system just stalls waiting for some process to > finish. Bleah. I've never seen anything that bad from a plugin. I wonder what else is wrong? > But, when I stop > artsd before I try to load the site, the plugins work. I'll try to play > with artsd options - let's see what the reason may be. As I guess, artsd > tries to lock /dev/dsp, and then nspluginviewer just stalls while waiting > for /dev/dsp to be freed. But why the hell artsd should behave like this > in case of SB Live!? There is no reason to lock /dev/dsp as there are 32 > channels. There is almost no reason for artsd even to exist in this case - > as the sound channel mixing is done in HARDWARE. Using OSS? Tried ALSA? Cheers; Leon
