Gaim sound prob

[elitewhiteghost]

I just did a rpm download for gaim.Few mins the sound works and latter it don't.I don't know what the prob is.:confused:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by elitewhiteghost
Few mins the sound works and latter it don't.I don't know what the prob is.:confused:

Either do I. :)

Tried any of the normal troubleshooting routines such as looking through your system logfiles in /var/log, checked to see if the soundcard modules are loading with 'lsmod', checked the sound output device in Gaim (if it has that option) and verified the volumes are set in the sound mixer?

Does sound work with anything else? Have you tried?

[j79zlr]

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Most likely the Arts sound, try setting it to ESD. I hate Arts, and is the main reason I don't use KDE anymore. Once it begins to use that sound daemon, no other ones can use sound. KDE is becoming Windows as far as taking everything over, with 3.2 you cannot disable Arts AFAIK, it always seems to startup and block everything even when it says its disabled.

[elitewhiteghost]

I lost



Do i need the alsa driver?I use kde 3.1:confused:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by elitewhiteghost

Do i need the alsa driver?I use kde 3.1:confused:

What soundcard?

The SBLive can use either the emu10k1 (kernel driver) or snd-emu10k1 (ALSA driver).

My CMI8738 can use either the cmipci (kernel) or snd-cmipci (ALSA) module.

[elitewhiteghost]

Someone told me i need that driver.I should stay with the old gaim.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by elitewhiteghost
Someone told me i need that driver.I should stay with the old gaim.

The ALSA driver for your soundcard? Are the soundcard modules loaded? Have you checked?

[elitewhiteghost]

Yes they are loaded.

[asklepios]

look in ps -ef to see if there is any process that might be using sound. if yes then kill it.
that is what j79zlr talking about. if you use gaim at first then sound will work. now you start some other app which uses sound and the sounds of gaim will be gone. i experienced this problem when i was on MDK. if i started gaim and had a chat, then started XMMS it would say that audio driver is busy and the opposite is true too. start XMMS...then gaim = no sound.
i don't know any permanent solution but imo you should see what you are running.

[elitewhiteghost]

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 20:51 ? 00:00:04 init
root 2 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [keventd]
root 3 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 8 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush]
root 4 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd]
root 5 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kscand/DMA]
root 6 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kscand/Normal]
root 7 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kscand/HighMem]
root 9 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kupdated]
root 10 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root 14 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 72 1 0 20:51 ? 00:00:00 [khubd]
root 2795 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 2837 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [knodemgrd]
root 3035 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 syslogd -m 0
root 3039 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 klogd -x
root 3094 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/cardmgr
root 3165 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/
root 3174 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 gpm -t ps/2 -m /dev/mouse
xfs 3197 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [xfs]
daemon 3206 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [atd]
root 3212 1 0 20:52 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
root 3213 1 0 20:52 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 3214 1 0 20:52 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 3215 1 0 20:52 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 3216 1 0 20:52 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 3217 1 0 20:52 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 3218 1 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [gdm-binary]
root 3261 3218 0 20:52 ? 00:00:00 [gdm-binary]
root 3262 3261 0 20:52 ? 00:00:13 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/g
syntax 3278 3261 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
syntax 3322 3278 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xini
syntax 3365 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: Running...
syntax 3368 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid
syntax 3371 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher
syntax 3373 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kded
syntax 3393 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: knotify
syntax 3394 3278 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper ksmserver
syntax 3396 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: ksmserver
syntax 3397 3365 0 20:58 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit: kwin -session 117f00000
syntax 3399 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit: kdesktop
syntax 3401 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit: kicker
syntax 3403 3365 0 20:58 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/autorun -l --interval=1
syntax 3408 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kwrited
syntax 3409 3365 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pam-panel-icon --sm-cli
root 3410 3409 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 [pam_timestamp_c]
syntax 3468 3365 0 21:02 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksoc
syntax 3589 3365 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kppp -icon kppp -miniicon kppp
root 3590 3589 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 [userhelper]
root 3593 3590 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kppp -icon kppp -miniicon kppp
root 3594 3593 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kppp -icon kppp -miniicon kppp
root 3596 1 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: Running...
root 3599 1 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --su
root 3602 1 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher
root 3604 1 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kded
root 3610 3594 0 21:05 ttyS1 00:00:00 pppd 115200 -detach crtscts defa
syntax 3737 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 gaim
syntax 3833 3365 2 21:19 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla-b
syntax 3919 3365 3 21:20 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: konsole
syntax 3920 3919 0 21:20 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash
root 3947 3920 0 21:20 pts/2 00:00:00 [su]
root 3950 3947 0 21:20 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
root 3976 3950 0 21:20 pts/2 00:00:00 ps -ef