Bug#445165: gnome-core: Gnome locks audio device.

Rafael Belmonte eaglescreen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 17:49:20 UTC 2007


Hello, if i disable ESD, aplay and other aplications begin to sound, but
then Gnome events doesn't sound. I am sure than i had ESD activated and
other aplications could sound in previous Debian Lenny/Sid development
state, in addiction i have comfirmed that in others distributions (for
example Ubuntu 7.10), i have activated ESD and both Gnome events and
other aplications sound without problems, because this, i think that
there is a bug in Debian.
I have right now updated Debian Sid with Gnome 2.20 and the problem
continues.
Thanks for your atention.

2007/10/3, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>:
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, Rafael wrote:
> > When gnome session is started, audio device is locked, and meny
> aplications cannot play sounds, only Gnome and Gnome aplicatios emit sounds.
> > For example, before start Gnome, i can play a WAV audio file with aplay
> command, but after gnome is started i cannot play sound with aplay, in gnome
> and in tty console i
> > obtain this error:
> >       ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> >       aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy.
> > The result is that many other aplications as aMSN, amarok (this give
> also Device busy error), and videos from youtube doesn't sound, but media
> files played with totem
> > sound, and also sound tests located in System -> Preferences -> Sound.
>
> Did you enable the sound server in GNOME?  If yes, then you should
> configure your application to use "Esound" as audio output.
> Alternatively, you can disable the sound server and configure your
> applications to use "Alsa" directly.
>
> Another option which I'm using is to setup PulseAudio, that works like
> esound and supports alsa apps as well, but requires more work to setup.
>
> --
> Loïc Minier
>
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