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ophiel

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Registered: 2011-06-17

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kernel-netbook and sound issues

Hello

Today I have following problem with my Arch.

I use pulseaudio and it is quite allright. The problem is that when I run DeaDBeeF, it somehow locks my audio device and I don't have sound in browsers, pidgin etc. DeaDBeef can be playing, paused or stopped, it doesn't matter, sound in chromium starts to work about 45-60 seconds after I totally quit the player.

To solve this, I decided to install OSS, but I've got following error:

:: Starting Open Sound System                                            [BUSY] 
Failed to disable conflicting sound drivers
Reboot and try running soundon again

Also check that you have not compiled sound support statically
into the kernel.

I tried to blacklist soundcore as Arch wiki is saying and turned off pulseaudio, still soundon didn't work (the same message) and alsamixer and mpg123 are working just fine:/

my lsmod shows

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  180026  10 
fuse                   48491  2 
af_packet              14784  2 
vfat                    6573  2 
fat                    34502  1 vfat
uvcvideo               45520  0 
videodev               50723  1 uvcvideo
ath9k                  47450  0 
ath9k_common            1344  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              252674  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
i2c_i801                5596  0 
asus_wmi                9607  0 
eeepc_laptop           10589  0 
sparse_keymap           1935  2 asus_wmi,eeepc_laptop
wmi                     5924  1 asus_wmi
pci_hotplug             7764  2 asus_wmi,eeepc_laptop

so there is nothing to remove.

however, i found this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119342 so the second part of oss message is true and I think I have similar problem, with one difference - i installed kernel-netbook by 'pacman -U'.

do I have to install it from source with changed settings or is there any other solution fixing those annoying sound issues?

regards.