arts crashes

[Guest garou42]

Hello,

 

I installed MDK 10.1 on my laptop (HP N5441), everything was fine (except for the USB mouse who makes crashing harddrake but I will fix this later...)

 

I installed the alsa drivers for my sound card "allegro ESS 1988" and XMMS works very well with the alsa settings.

 

But the problem is about arts :

when I configure KDE sound system with Kcontrol, when I test the sound (with the test sound buton of Kcontrol), either the system plays a sounds without stopping, or it crashed completely Kcontrol.

 

When I try to start artsd in a console, I have an error message about a broken pipe:

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe

 

Well I don't know exactly how to fix this problem,

 

If anyone has an idea, please let me know...

 

Thanks

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

[iphitus]

Try disabling arts.

 

If you really need more than one program at once using sound, take a look at this entry I made on the ArchLinux wiki.

 

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow...und%20at%20once

[Guest garou42]

Hello,

 

Thanks for your reply,

 

I will try your solution tonight,

 

Regards

[adamw]

iphitus: i hereby charge that suggesting people buy the SB Live! soundcard is a crime against decent quality audio. :D otherwise, good stuff, arts and esd are evil and need to die. 10.2 enables dmix by default, which is good.