On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:44, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Brian Durant a écrit :
What is artsd on Fedora or Suse? Is it KDE specific? Is that the
sound driver? I believe I need to disable the Ubuntu/Debian
(GNOME???) parallel to artsd. If a) is what I need to do, how do I
disable the driver in /etc/modules at boot? I get the idea of booting
into a safe environment, but I only see "linux" and "old" when I
press the tab key at boot in Breezy. Does that mean that I need to
boot from a live CD and then mount the partition?
Dear Brian,
artsd is a sound daemon, a program which intercalates between the
sound
driver and the end-user applications. That kind of program can not
usually freeze a whole machine.
The sound driver we are talking about is a kernel driver. Its name is
snd_powermac. If it is loaded, you can unload with "rmmod
snd_powermac".
On debian systems, you can prevent it from being automatically
loaded by
adding a sharp sign "#" before its name in the /etc/modules file.
You can edit this file with console text editors, or through a
graphical
interface, if you run a live CD and mount the partition.
Good luck,
--
Charles
OK, then it is most likely the sound daemon where the problem lies.
If I try to disable the daemon first, what is the daemon that is used
in GNOME in Ubuntu and Debian? Where does it reside?
Cheers,
Brian
