artsd crashing when playing system sounds
 

Hi

I'm using SuSe 9.12 pro on a system based on a PC Chips M/board, includes a Soundblaster 128PCI, inbuilt SiS Audio chip, Phillips CDRW2010 ATI AIW 128 AGP Graphics card. I'm running KDE 3.2.1-48

I had sound working sweetly on MP3, OGG, could rip tracks from CDs, play mp3s using XMMS (Fantasic app BTW!!!)

However, since I decided to enable system sounds (wanted to install a Borealis sound theme) i get the following repetitive crash:

<b>artsd</b> caused the soundserver to crash on <b>SIGSERV</b>. this keeps happening, however, XMMS happily plays MP3s.

I swapped the sound card from from the SoundBlaster PCI card to the motherboard's inbuilt sound, but the same thing happens and it's more and more annoying

Could this be happening because I am trying to run systyem sounds AND play MP3s at the same time. If that's the case, then can someone let me know? I can then swithc off all system sounds altogether, but thought that they could run independently.

I've read up a bit on artsd - am I right in thinking that this is the controller under KDE for all sounds, including playing MP3s, system sounds etc. and that by trying to allow system sounds and MP3 playback, I'm being a tad stupid?

Is there a way to do a fresh install of <b>artsd</b> to repair any system problems I may have caused.

Really, really getting to like SUse, hardly ever run Windows now. I can really appreciate why so many people make the move!

PS - have just tried to run with just system sounds (no MP3 players running or launched) and it's crashing

Re: artsd crashing when playing system sounds
 

Have you checked to see if you (as the user) are in the audio group? Fire up YaST and under users, check to see if you are a member of the audio group. If not, add yourself to that group and see if the system sounds work.

Anand

anandrajan

I am a member of audio, from what I've read, it looks like the 2.6 kernel that ships with Suse 9.1 has conflicts with SoundBlaster cards. Have switched to the onboard SiS driver to see if that works.

FWIW, I have SuSE 9.1 Pro (now 9.2 Pro) running with a Soundblaster Live (emu10k1 driver) with system sounds enabled and everything. I don't see any arts crashes. Have you tried gnome or enlightenment to see if this is a KDE specific problem?

Also, if YaST can play a test sound (YaST -> Hardware -> Sound -> Volume -> Click on Test ), then I don't think it is a hardware problem. More likely a KDE problem or an OSS versus ALSA problem.

Anand

Check out the settings in control centre->sound & multimedia->sound system. Change the auto-suspend to 1sec instead of 10 or 60 or whatever is the default.

Cheers guys, it looks like a KDE problem, would updgrading to 3.3 help? I'm running 3.2.1 right now. Although I have tried updating Arts through YasT but it still crashes!!

Is there a way I can replace arts with another sound controller?