Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: weird volume problem

[Adam Shelley]

>
> It sounds to me like you may have set fade-out on something, and forgotten
> about it.  You mentioned deleting the .kde dir, which some apps would
> start from, but you haven't mentioned any other possible auto-start apps
> you may be running, from your init scripts or whatever.
>

I looked for any autostart apps.  Nothing incriminating that i can see.

> Do you use any command line sound (outside X/KDE) at all?  Do you run the
> ALSA init scripts or just let KDE's sound settings turn it on for you?

I use the command line frequently and I also use the alsa init scripts.

> Is it possible to set volume at max and then exit KDE before it gets to
> zero again (does exiting KDE and X stop the process, IOW)?
>

No, It takes to long.  The volume decreases faster than you can shutdown
KDE properly.


> What about running aplay from the command line, with X shut down?  You may
> need to run alsamixer, and possibly the alsa init script, to get sound
> running in the CLI.  Does the same fade effect happen there?
>

Hmm, this is interesting... without X loaded the sound still goes down.
   I verified this by running rexima.  The sound still goes down gradually.

> Try using top or ksysguard's process table to see what other apps may be
> running.  Send sig-15 (terminate gracefully) to them one at a time (using
> some sense, of course, try user processes before root processes or
> daemons, don't try to stop kernel processes), and see if you can figure
> out what process might be responsible.
>

I looked at the process table before but didn't think of what could be
causing it.  Looking again, I have found the culprit.  I'm using the i8k
utils module for dell laptops and it seems to be causing my problem.
I'll have to play around with that program to see why it's being so mean
to me.  If i kill the 'i8kbuttons' process, the problem goes away.

Thanks for the tips,

-Adam

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