I discovered some unruly audio aspects of my linux box;
1)In Nautilus, which I think sux btw (I want a file manager not a multimedia extravaganza), I accidentally put my cursor over about 4 or 5 MP3 files. I then had 5 MP3's playing *at the same time* for about 30 seconds. It was so bad I had to unplug my speakers.
2) Noatun crashed in an unbelievably cute way, and then the audio kept on playing.
Is there a way of stopping this unruly sound daemon? Obviously I'm used to audio apps that kill the sound they produce when they die, but it seems Linux's renowned stability is backfiring! :)
Ricardo,
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Hi Ricardo
Delete the modules.conf entry for the sound modules along with any init.d start up scripts - Peace and quite with just gentle murmur of the fan to keep you company <g>
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:36 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Is there a way of stopping this unruly sound daemon?
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:36:47 Ricardo Campos wrote:
I discovered some unruly audio aspects of my linux box;
1)In Nautilus, which I think sux btw (I want a file manager not a multimedia extravaganza), I accidentally put my cursor over about 4 or 5 MP3 files. I then had 5 MP3's playing *at the same time* for about 30 seconds. It was so bad I had to unplug my speakers.
I would raise a bug report against Nautilus as I beleive that Nautilus as a program should be doing the necessary checking to ensure that it doesn't try to play two MP3 files at once.
I gather that you are running esd, as I am, and I have had no problems with esd per se. Esd's job is to mix together sound from difference sources and you need something to do that when you are playing a music file while using a program which also makes odd sounds of it's own.
- Noatun crashed in an unbelievably cute way, and then
the audio kept on playing.
Is there a way of stopping this unruly sound daemon? Obviously I'm used to audio apps that kill the sound they produce when they die, but it seems Linux's renowned stability is backfiring!
This problem of sound continuing after a crash was common on PC games where the soundcard had been told to play a sample continuously and then the game stopped updating the sample to be played so it was repeated ad infinitum. The difference was that in the case of the game this usually meant the system was locked up too and a reboot would be required.
Esd has a similar ability to repeat a loop of sound until told to stop. Linux is very good at freeing up the resources a dead process was using when it quit or crashed, but if the program that crashed has instructed another process that is still running to do something on behalf of the process that subsequently crashed then Linux knows nothing of this and this is exactly the situation with a sound generating program and Esd.
Steve.
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