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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote |
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>> why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?! |
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>> Just write in the shell: |
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>> rc-update add alsasound default |
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> I *DO* have alsasound in my default. Since you obviously have not |
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> read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote... |
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>> I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo). |
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>> Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver |
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>> modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus), |
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>> perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the "unable |
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>> to open slave" message was being generated. Subsequently mplayer |
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>> was able to load and play audio tracks. |
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>> So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being |
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>> unavailable for some reason. |
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> The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not |
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> available early on in the boot process. Re-starting the alsasound |
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> daemon later on works around that problem. |
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This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing |
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turned on? You know, where multiple services can be started at the same |
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time without waiting for the startup to complete. I read somewhere a |
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while back where some were having various trouble but not lately. If |
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you do, may want to try it with it turned off and see if that helps. |
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Just something to think about just in case. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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