3 instances of artsd [solved]

[boatman9]

My 2009.0 installation has three instances of artsd running after it boots. At least one of the three is preventing one or more other programs from having access to sound output.

 

$ /usr/sbin/lsof | grep snd
gconf-hel 3728 user  mem	   REG		8,3  1809984  230949 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.18
artsd	 4541 user  mem	   CHR	 116,16			 3015 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
artsd	 4541 user	8r	  CHR	 116,33	  0t0	2769 /dev/snd/timer
artsd	 4541 user	9u	  CHR	 116,16	  0t0	3015 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
kmix	  4548 user   10u	  CHR	  116,0	  0t0	3062 /dev/snd/controlC0

In order to run certain programs which use sound I must first run the following command to remove the three instances of artsd.

 

killall -TERM artsd

Is the presence of artsd immediately after boot a bug in Mandriva 2009.0? How can I automatically remove artsd so that other programs can use the sound system without me having to fix things up manually after each boot?

Edited February 11, 2009 by boatman9

[K Bergen]

You can try this, it worked in 2008.1

 

In KDE Control Center go to

Sound & Multimedia

Sound System

Then set (Auto-suspend if idle after) to one second

 

Ken

[boatman9]

That fixed it. I have no KDE Control Center in the menu, maybe because I am using KDE 3.5 on 2009.0. The program's name is kcontrol and I was able to call it from command line.

[K Bergen]

I'm glad to help and happy it's fixed. :D

 

Ken

[Greg2]

I have no KDE Control Center in the menu

There's a systemsettings-kde3 package in the repos that is the replacement for kcontrol in Mandriva 2009.0. It gives you the same control settings that are in kcontrol, or you can simply make a menu entry for kcontrol.