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amadlopes

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Registered: 2007-06-28

Posts: 35

xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

When i start my computer after the boot it appears this message in a amarok box:

"xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

The sound is working well and after a while amarok and kaffeine works well.
If i reboot the message appears and amarok and kaffeine don't work. After a while amarok and kaffeine works well.

Thank you,

Afonso

rata

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

I have the same problem.

VincentV

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

Anybody figure this out yet?  I have this too, and scrounging around here & elsewhere so far has done me no good...  Now I'm wondering if I ignored a Qt message or two last pacman -Syu I did.  Oh well I'll keep tinkering.

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VincentV

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

Hrrmm, I see alsa/sound seems to die when I use Flock & try to watch a video on Brietbart or something.

OK I've just been trying running Opera, hitting Brietbart, cranking up an ogg file with alsaplayer, then trying Flock.  This is after logging out & back in.  So far this time everything is going fine, I can hear my song & the video both.  So I don't know what's happening nor really when it might happen again.  Weird.

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VincentV
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VincentV

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

Wow time's passed & I dunno exactly what problem I was having nor how I maybe "fixed" it...  Anyway, today I had problems, again, with Amarok, and I had just been using Flock.  Couldn't get anywhere, and aside from Amarok's friendly message about xine & audio drivers, got these messages:

Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
kbuildsycoca running...
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8096838 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8096838 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
    StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
OggS-SEEK: at 704 want 47096 got 23104 (diff-requested 46392)
OggS-SEEK: at 47040 want 1032 got 0 (diff-requested -46008)

While floundering around, somehow in my googling I got the idea to check on what KDE stuff was running.  I did a quick
ps -efwww | grep kde
and found this 'mongst the output:
johnny   30257     1  0 11:51 ?        00:00:14 /opt/kde/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f

Just for kicks I killed that & tried Amarok again, it worked like a charm this time.  I _think_ I've gone through this before, but I'm rather thick & have to keep learning things for the first time.  Hope maybe this helps someone.

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VincentV
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somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

n/m

Last edited by somairotevoli (2008-01-03 19:55:00)