My sound is acting really, really weird.

xakh · 2009-09-08 06:27:35

After I log in, the nice start up sound plays like normal, that's all dandy. Then I turn on my music player. It skips all of my tracks, acting like it can't play them.Flash video? nuh uh. Nothing can play sound. I have my IM clients use the BIOS beep to signify things happening, and that's been that way for about a week, but today was when my music player busted, and that was the final straw.

arkay · 2009-09-08 11:15:08

Just curious. Are you using kde?

I've had similar issues lately. Driving me nuts but haven't had time to look at it. Half the time I have to switch my mp3 player to OSS to get it to work. The other half alsa is fine. It started happening for me after the upgrade to kde 4.3. Something to do with phonon (I think).

Cheers,

Arkay.

Last edited by arkay (2009-09-08 11:15:46)

xakh · 2009-09-08 22:00:47

I am in fact using KDE and using 4.3. How do I switch to OSS?

arkay · 2009-09-09 01:11:43

I mean switching the mp3 player to oss. Not the sound server. I use audacious. In the preferences pages you can choose between alsa/oss. Most apps should have similar settings. It's not a fix for the problem. Just a workaround.

Cheers,

Arkay.

xakh · 2009-09-09 03:21:32

Well, that didn't even act as a workaround here. Any other suggestions?

arkay · 2009-09-09 07:32:52

Sorry. Hopefully someone else can offer some ideas. Initially I thought it was happening to me because I had two sound cards in the system and it seemed to be randomly picking the wrong one. I've since pulled out the other one and I still have the issue. What music player are you using. I was using Amarok, with the gstreamer backend. That was causing issues. I then install the xine backend for Amarok and changed the backend settings to that which fixed some of the problems.

to do that install phonon-xine and xine-lib

sudo su -
pacman -S phonon-xine xine-lib

then in amarok go to settings->configure amarok->playback->Sound system configuration configure->backend->Xine and hit apply.

That might get you going for music at least. If you use amarok.

Cheers,

Arkay.

Last edited by arkay (2009-09-09 07:34:00)

sHyLoCk · 2009-09-09 07:46:13

xakh, did you install gstreamer-good/bad/ugly plugins? Also install codecs

pacman -S codecs

from archlinuxfr repo.

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2009-09-09 07:46:44)

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#1 2009-09-08 06:27:35

My sound is acting really, really weird.

#2 2009-09-08 11:15:08

Re: My sound is acting really, really weird.

#3 2009-09-08 22:00:47

Re: My sound is acting really, really weird.

#4 2009-09-09 01:11:43

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#5 2009-09-09 03:21:32

Re: My sound is acting really, really weird.

#6 2009-09-09 07:32:52

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#7 2009-09-09 07:46:13

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