camorri Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 I'm have problems trying to get system notifications to play a sound fine, ( .wav files ) while I have an audio stream palying, or playing music files. First off, I'm running Mandriva 2009.1 with a stock kernel. I have several system notifications set up to play .wav files, including Thunderbird, for arriving mail. The system notifications work, if I'm not playing a audio stream, or musinc files on my system. Once I start up Xmms, or RealPlayer 11, then I do not hear the notifications. Pulse Audio is enabled in MCC. Other options I have selected are: Automatic Routing from ALSA to Pulse Audio, and Enable user switching for Audio Applications. Other items are not selected. Sound driver: snd_hda_codec_realtek 194272 1snd_hda_intel 25064 5 snd_hda_codec 68828 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 6880 1 snd_hda_codec snd_seq_dummy 2464 0 snd_seq_oss 29536 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6812 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48976 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 6728 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 37632 0 snd_pcm 74432 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 20900 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 14460 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 56516 20 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq, snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 6976 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8708 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm I have spent a lot of time on www.pulseaudio.org, and at this point have not found a lot of help there. It appears to me as a lot of the setup on Mandriva 2009.1 is different than what they list. I have installed 'padevchooser' 'paman' 'paprefs' 'pavucontrol' and 'pavumeter' to try and help sort out how Pulse Audio works, and hoe to configuer the beast. The problem as I see it, if I have XMMS or RealPlayer running, and I try to play a .wav file, with aplay at a command prompt, XMMS will continue to play, but I get silence from the .wav file. The wav files are fine, if you play them by themselves. This all worked when aRts was the sound server, on older versions of Mandriva. I know I could remove Pulse, and install aRts, but that would be giving up, and if PA is the future, I would lkie to understand it better. Any thoughts on what I coyuld try??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 I haven't used xmms or relplayer for ages. Are you sure that those programs use pulseaudio? Or when you play something in xmms nothing else has sound not just the wav file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Pulseaudio is not the future, all over forums (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) people say they uninstalled (or disabled) it to get rid of sound problems and suggest it as a solution to others. Eventually distros will realise this too and not install it by default anymore. One of the top voted and commented items on the Mandriva 2010 Ideas site is to make pulseaudio optional: http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/idees/show.php?id=142 I would suggest you to get rid of Pulseaudio, your sound problems will likely be solved too. xmms is really ancient now, try Audacious which is very similar and much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Not a fan of Pulseaudio at all, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Thank-you for your comments. XMMS has a Pulse Audio plugin, and does work with it. I understand people are not thrilled with Pulse Audio, neither am I. However, my interest is to see what can I do with it. Since it is GPL, like other linux software, and several distros are moving toward it, I would like to see if I can get it to work. The problem I have is not a show stopper, by any means. I know I could blow it away, but that would not help to define any problem, or to fix it. So I will continue as far as I can to learn, and help fix... Here is one thing I tripped across, looking to learn... E: modinfo.c: Failed to open module "/lib/module-init-tools": file not found I get this error message when I run the command 'pulseaudio --dump-modules', at the end of the module listings. I went into Install/Remove software, and listed the installed module, 'module-init-tools version 3.6' It is installed. I looked at the files, and sure enough, module-init-tools is installed in the path specified. So, the question is why do I get the error message it can not be found? Possibly this has something to do with problem I have described? Don't know for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted June 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Well, after spending way too much time on Pulse Audio, I had no success in getting system sounds to work, with other applications running. For now I have given up. I disabled Pulse in MCC. I installed aRts, and voila, system sounds with other audio applications running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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