From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071030 Fedora/2.0.0.8-2.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8 Description of problem: I'm using amarok and get it use helix audio driver (RealPlayer) to become able to play various media types. It works fine until its playlist is finished and befire playing another playlist, pidgin plays a sound. After that amarok will not be able to play any media and returns "Helix core returned error : Audio driver error". Restarting the amarok will not fix the problem and the only way I know to play another media is restarting the machine. /sbin/lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) cat /proc/modules | grep snd snd_hda_intel 274657 5 - Live 0xf8b1a000 snd_seq_dummy 6725 0 - Live 0xf899f000 snd_seq_oss 29889 0 - Live 0xf8ab8000 snd_seq_midi_event 9793 1 snd_seq_oss, Live 0xf8a77000 snd_seq 44849 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event, Live 0xf8aac000 snd_seq_device 10061 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq, Live 0xf8a73000 snd_pcm_oss 37569 0 - Live 0xf8a92000 snd_mixer_oss 16705 2 snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf8a6d000 snd_pcm 63685 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf8a81000 snd_timer 20549 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm, Live 0xf8a52000 snd_page_alloc 11337 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm, Live 0xf8987000 snd_hwdep 10309 1 snd_hda_intel, Live 0xf897f000 snd 43461 16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep, Live 0xf8a46000 soundcore 9633 2 snd, Live 0xf88bb000 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): amarok-1.4.7-7.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: have realplayer installed, use amarok. play a media, stop it, let pidgin plays a media, play another media with amarok. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
Does Helix/Real work or not like amarok too? If so, that's where the issue lies.
I think that was a problem of Helix with pulseaudio. I'm talling this because now I'm using xine engine, and I've installed package xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.10.1-1.lvn8 and now I'm able to play types of media I want. Besides having gstreamer makes life happier. I can not prepare you needed data, cause this bug is reported about 3 months before ;) and now my system is updated and no such problems occure. Maybe it's better to close this bug ;) Best, adrin.
I was about to suggest using xine, glad you have it working now. :)