Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-22 Thread Anurag Priyam
[+CC: dunz0r; tried to help me out on IRC with the same] On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Julien Danjou jul...@danjou.info wrote: I just hit a bad bug. awesome would not start! Oh my! Truck load of thanks JD :). I had been a victim of the same since the last 2-3 days. Tried to debug it, but was

Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Julien Danjou
Hi, I just hit a bad bug. awesome would not start! I discovered that this was caused by obvious. I use the volume_alsa widget, which runs amixer. But I had pulseaudio installed. And doing a: xtrace amixer -c 0 -- get Master showed that the pulseaudio plugin of alsa was run and tried to

Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:16:40PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: Removing pulseaudio resolved the problem for now, but I think we should do something in obvious to avoid that, like unsetting the DISPLAY environment variable. Why not simply defer the first update of the widget to give awesome a

Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Julien Danjou
On Fri, Oct 21 2011, Daniel Silverstone wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:16:40PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: Removing pulseaudio resolved the problem for now, but I think we should do something in obvious to avoid that, like unsetting the DISPLAY environment variable. Why not simply defer

Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Uli Schlachter
On 21.10.2011 15:16, Julien Danjou wrote: I just hit a bad bug. awesome would not start! I discovered that this was caused by obvious. I use the volume_alsa widget, which runs amixer. But I had pulseaudio installed. And doing a: xtrace amixer -c 0 -- get Master showed that the

Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Julien Danjou
On Fri, Oct 21 2011, Uli Schlachter wrote: @jd: Are you on the 3.4 branch or is your git clone just too old? Did I break your config badly enough to make you switch to 3.4? :-) Yeah, I'm on 3.4 for a long time now. :) -- Julien Danjou pgpuD11oBLIWw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Obvious and ALSA

2011-10-21 Thread Gregor Best
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote: [...] That problem is relatively common. I only ever saw it happening due to pulseaudio. In other news, you have a great timing. Let's look at the recent git history for the master branch: [...] [...] To make this