On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 18:44 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > hello, > i have debian 3.0 installed on my AMD 2600+ system. i'm using the alsa sound > server, and have the nvidia-nforce2 soundcard. i'm getting the following > problem with my sound server. > when i try to run any music using either xmms or amarok, the system kinda > hangs for a few seconds. i say "kinda" because the sound keeps on playing, > but nothing else works for quite some time. i cant cycle between windows, > can't open new applications. the only thing i can do is to use the amarok > global shortcut to stop the current song, which stops after about a min or > so, and then the system starts functioning properly. logging off or even > restarting the m/c doesn't help. > googling suggested that only one application can use the sound system at a > time, so i should disable the sound server usage in KDE (for notifications, > kalarm, etc), but that didn't help. and neither did the other suggestion, > which was to use alsaconf to reconfigure the sound server. >
I have experienced similar symptoms with the artsd sound daemon. Are you using KDE as your desktop? Are you running artsd? If so, suggest you disable arts (KDE Control Panel>Sound System) and configure Amarok to use another engine e.g. xine engine. HTH, --akk -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
