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Harey

Member

From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 359

Amarok interrupted by power management

Hello everybody,

for a friend I set up a PC to use as a music player in a pub, using amarok on kde. I installed a small arch system with kde and amarok mainly. Everything is working fine. Well, nearly... After about 10 minutes of playing music, the system shuts down the monitor and - guess what? No sound anymore. Move the mouse - here we go again.. I disabled any screensaver - to no avail. I dind't even install any acpid, this is arch out-of-the-box! What happens here?

Any clues?

Harvey

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raven3x7

Member

Registered: 2007-03-11

Posts: 23

Re: Amarok interrupted by power management

Right click on the desktop, go to configure desktop, then to display. Switch to the power management tab and disable it.

Harey

Member

From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 359

Re: Amarok interrupted by power management

raven,

You are thinking quite problem oriented I did this already, and it is working. But the real question is: why does _monitor_ power management affect the sound? And looking at your post the answer came up - because the loudspeakers of my test environment are _in_ the monitor... Duh! Silly me!  Plugging the sound to external speakers solved this one. Thank you for awaking me

Harvey

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Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside