Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:32 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > CD is playing alright. Volume Control Panel mute, volume, balance all > > work. In *my* original thread (not the one from ech - Jim?), I couldn't > > even open the Volume Cont... crap that's too long - VCP ;-) (you k

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread nate
William L. Maltby wrote: > CD is playing alright. Volume Control Panel mute, volume, balance all > work. In *my* original thread (not the one from ech - Jim?), I couldn't > even open the Volume Cont... crap that's too long - VCP ;-) (you know > who you are!) I'm not sure it's a bug though, it ma

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:20 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:25 -0700, nate wrote: > > > Well, that was involved partly. The other user owned all the > devices /dev/{gpmctl,mixer,audio,adsp,snd} *and* floppies, HD, > nvidia, ... > > So I ran > >find /dev -user bil

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:25 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > I'll see if I can ID a plugin in the next pass. > > The plugins themselves won't show up, in my case it just said firefox > was using it. And I recall getting audio from flash earlier in the > day so thought it s

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread nate
William L. Maltby wrote: > > I'll see if I can ID a plugin in the next pass. The plugins themselves won't show up, in my case it just said firefox was using it. And I recall getting audio from flash earlier in the day so thought it still might be using it, and I happened to be right, after disabl

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:17 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > That returned nothing. So I ran it w/o the dsp and manually extracted > > anything interesting. Got just these, which look normal. > > How about lsof | grep /dev/snd In my visual, I was on the lookout for that (or a

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread nate
William L. Maltby wrote: > That returned nothing. So I ran it w/o the dsp and manually extracted > anything interesting. Got just these, which look normal. How about lsof | grep /dev/snd I'm used to using OSS, which usually means /dev/dsp, it seems that ALSA uses /dev/snd(or maybe another device

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:13 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > > any sound played as another user should reproduce it. Hmmm ...

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:13 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > > any sound played as another user should reproduce it. Hmmm ...

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-07 Thread nate
William L. Maltby wrote: > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > any sound played as another user should reproduce it. Hmmm ... I might > be assuming to much if I assume another user is s

[CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Might have some kind of bug here. I want to know if anybody else is seeing this. It's happened twice now, so I should be able to repeat it. $ rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos On my desktop, I "su -" to another user. Then "nohup thunderbird", it gets the mail and plays the annou