Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52583
KDE Sount Server failure with SB!Live
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010809 Description of problem: On login to KDE I often get the error message: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sound Server informational message: error while initializing the Sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opend (permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am fairly sure this is related to aRts, as whenever I select "full duplex" from the Kde Controll Pannel and "test sound" the controll pannel locks up untill I force a kill command on the arts server. This error wont happen all the time, and I cannot find any pattern to it, but only on login as either a user or root.. Once this message has been shown however programs like kmix and the kde cd player will crash (they are loaded by default by my selecting "restore session" although dont appear to be the cause of the sound server crash. rebooting the machine is the only fix I have found. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.login 2.logout 3.login, it might happen, it might not Actual Results: Either it works, or gives the error, no pattern. Expected Results: it should of just worked!!! Additional info: I use a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 "Player" (I think player, but its a Europein one, and outside the USA creative dont seem to find it nessacery to pretend there is an actuall differeance between live products EXCEPT ofc the gold plated ones =)
Works here (also some weirdo European SB Live). Make sure no other program is blocking the soundcard while artsd is starting up. The full duplex setting works here, too, but this may well be a driver bug. No problems here on a SB Live (cheapest edition, whatever it may be ;) ), an ESS Maestro 3E, an ISA SB16 and an ESS1868.
Well, I have installed nothing aside the redhat provided rpm's that are NOT standalone programs that afaik do not have any back ground processes, absolutly no third party daemons, yet it is garunteed to happen every time now.. I have tryed with and without things like mixer starting up on login, and also reverting all sound settings back to presets, nada! Is there perhaps some log specificly that might help me elaborate on this? I am fairly sure I have no done anything to cause this aside perhaps change settings in the distro.. Tonight I'll create blank accounts and have a go there as well, but as I said any specific log you might know of and I'll look thru it