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Lukas0907

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Registered: 2008-02-18

Posts: 4

50% CPU for syslog after plugging in the LCD // mplayer error

Hi,

i'm new to arch, and not very familiar with linux.... however, i switched to it and ... yeah it runs ... after give or take 15 hours of editing config-files ... *g

Now i wanted to test my HP w2207h (22" LCD) and plugged it in. The first problem: I wanted to start the laptop and all of a sudden an ACPI-error msg is floating the display and doesn't want to go away... so I plugged the VGA cable out and started the Notebook again. Puuh, everything runs but it's bit awkward, isn't it?

Then I wanted to plug the VGA cable in and suddenly everything runs veeeeery slowly... so I opened the console and typed in TOP to see what's going on... the syslog-daemon uses 50% of the cpu... and that's what happens every time when i plug in the cable... after i plug it out, everything runs smoothly again.. :-(

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Now to my second problem: everytime i want to open MPlayer, it tells me: "can't open audio device /dev/dsp device or resource busy" however, i can here everything... mhm

I hope, someone could help an arch-noob

Cheers,
Lukas

Last edited by Lukas0907 (2008-02-18 19:15:17)

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: 50% CPU for syslog after plugging in the LCD // mplayer error

Second problem is quite usual if you will try to play quake2 you will see how /dev/dsp do not want to work at all. Try to play file from command line:
mplayer sth.sth
It works good for me.
It is because of boring story about ALSA and OSS.

And sysleg-deamon is not critical part of system you can disable it by removing from /etc/rc.conf file.

Lukas0907

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Registered: 2008-02-18

Posts: 4

Re: 50% CPU for syslog after plugging in the LCD // mplayer error

Hi,

i found out that the syslog-daemon writes into to the syslog-file the ACPI-error, so i disabled ACPI with in the /boot/grub/menu.list!! however, now everytime when the system is starting, there is an annoying error msg involving the acpi-daemon.... :-(