On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 18:00 -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: > On April 21, 2005 17:06, Stuart Rowan wrote: > > Firstly, thank you for adopting the xmms package and getting so many > > patches into it recently. The current problem I have with xmms is that if > > I press the up or down arrow on the keyboard whilst the main window has > > the focus, the volume changes fine but the display gets stuck at showing > > e.g. VOLUME 70% instead of timing out and changing back to displaying the > > song title. If I use the mouse on the volume slider however, the volume > > changes fine and the song title appears after the timeout. > > > > Interestingly this only happens if the ALSA output plugin is used. > > Furthermore if I choose to use the software volume control in the alsa > > configuration then the bug goes away. Also if I set the volume control to > > be of PCM and not master, (after a restart of xmms) the problem is gone. > > So I presume there must be some weird interaction between ALSA and xmms > > here? > > Sounds like it. I can't reproduce the problem here, and that fact combined > with the extremely narrow range of the problem leads me to suspect that > there might be something odd about your ALSA that is causing XMMS trouble > (rightly or wrongly). Does changing the smooth title scrolling setting make > a difference? No difference.
> On the ALSA side, do any of the plug-in options make a > difference, for instance mmap or multi-threaded mode? Nope. > Presumably you're running the latest and greatest ALSA packages, but is > your kernel reasonably new? Stranger things have caused problems in the > past. Don't feel obligated to update it, though. Do you have any mixers > running? No mixers running, kernel running is 2.6.11.7 -- too new? It has ALSA version 1.0.8 in it according to proc, which suggests all should be good. Well my solution is just to revert back to the OSS output plugin (using alsa's OSS emulation)...it works so much better than native alsa...bit sad though. Thanks for your quick response, if you have any other thoughts...I am a willing guinea pig :-) Stu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
