On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:37, Leon Brooks wrote: > > 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? A lot. For example, when I log in in the text console, the system takes a lot of time to reboot or just stalls UNTIL I EXIT THE TEXT CONSOLE SESSION. I suspect that somewhere there are a lot of some .rpmnew's and that some old versions of initscripts just don't play good anymore with the recent version of the system - it has been continuously upgraded since Mandrake 6.0, including several hardware upgrades and transfers to newer discs. > > > 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? Using ALSA. > > Cheers; Leon
-- Regards, Alex Chudnovsky e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 35559910
