On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:32:28 +0200
Joost Yervante Damad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007 19:08:51 A. Costa wrote:
> > More data...
> >
> > % play foo.mp3 ; echo $?
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2105:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared
> > library plugindir/ libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so play stio:
> > Failed writing default: cannot open audio device
> > 2
> >
> > Maybe it's an 'alsa' thing? My usual sound output server/plugin
> > is pulseaudio, which still works.
>
> Can you perhaps show your .asoundrc and timidity configuration ?
I can try...
There is no '.asoundrc':
% locate asoundrc ; echo $?
1
But there is an 'asound.conf' in '/etc':
# handy function to remove comments and blanks from a config file
nocomment() { grep -v -e '^#.*$\|^[[:space:]]*$' $1 ; }
% F=/etc/asound.conf
% ls -l $F # show the date when last changed
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Mar 29 04:09 /etc/asound.conf
% nocomment $F
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
...that file hasn't changed in the last a few months.
Timidity config files are in two places:
% T1=/etc/timidity.cfg T2=/etc/timidity/timidity.cfg
% ls -l $T1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Oct 23 2005 /etc/timidity.cfg ->
/usr/share/timidity/patches/timidity.cfg
% nocomment $T1
dir /usr/share/timidity/patches/
source gravis.cfg
source gsdrums.cfg
source gssfx.cfg
source mt-32.cfg
source proteus2.cfg
source sndfont.cfg
source sustain.cfg
source xgmap2.cfg
bank 0
0 /usr/share/timidity/patches/acpiano.pat
% ls -l $T2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1204 Feb 2 2006 /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg
% nocomment $T2
source /usr/share/timidity/patches/timidity.cfg
None of those config files have changed recently, therefore something
else had to change, which somehow prevents 'timidity' from installing.
Thinking it might be the '/etc/asound.conf', I commented out everything,
then ran, as root:
% /etc/init.d/alsa reload
/etc/init.d/alsa: Warning: Processes using sound devices: 4403(gkrellm)
4458(pulseaudio) 4574(aumix).
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371
snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc (failed: modules still loaded:
snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371
snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc.
% /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
Shutting down ALSA...done.
Setting up ALSA...done.
% /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart
% /etc/init.d/timidity restart
Stopping timidity.
Starting: timidityALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to
open slave
failed!
That last error is different, though still ALSA related.
HTH...
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