artsd crashes with kde 3.3

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gyratedotorg · Post by **gyratedotorg** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:15 pm

ever since i upgraded to kde 3.3, i get no sound through kde. if i try to use kaboodle, artsd segfaults. sound works fine through xmms, so it must be a problem with the new arts.

heres what happens when i start artsd at the command line.

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ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe

im stuck here until i use ctrl+c. anyone have any suggestions?

pdaphreak · Post by **pdaphreak** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:30 pm

I just switched from esd to artsd to get skype to work, and I am now experiencing the same problem. I will continue to research, and any help is appreciated.

Luka21 · Post by **Luka21** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:32 am

If you're using alsa I suggest starting at the beginning with alsa and work your way up to arts.

1. Make sure you have alsa up and running; try playing some wav file with aplay - I was able to reduce some (arts) errors by compiling kernel with everything that has to do with sound support as module.

2. Maybe it just works? If not create a new user and start kde, just to make sure there is no problem with your old settings.

3. I read that some people had to unmerged old versions of arts and reemerged the new version for everything to work

4. You can also try to rm /tmp/ -r

I am really curious how this will develope, because I have similar problem. I don't expe expect you will be able to fix errors, but at least you should get sound working.

Assgier · Post by **Assgier** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:18 pm

after upgrading to KDE 3.3 (an upgrade to arts 1.3.0 comes with it), you have to recompile alsa-driver (or your kernel(-modules), should you be running alsa from inside the kernel) to be compatible with the new arts

It's what got KDE sound working again on my laptop

gyratedotorg · Post by **gyratedotorg** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:30 pm

as i mentioned earlier, im able to play sounds through xmms (using alsa), so alsa is not the issue. i also have my sound drivers compiled into the kernel (not as modules).

Assgier · Post by **Assgier** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:55 pm

gyratedotorg wrote:as i mentioned earlier, im able to play sounds through xmms (using alsa), so alsa is not the issue. i also have my sound drivers compiled into the kernel (not as modules).

xmms doesn't play via arts.. KDE sounds do play using arts

But my above given solution is not really a solution, after getting into trouble with alsa crashing my complete system after a while of playing for example some SNES game with zsnes (Super Nintendo emulator) or supertux, i went tweaking with various alsa versions to stop it from crashing, during this process KDE sound got broken again for some reason and i couldn't fix it back

So i think this is still a topic that needs a real fix

sonf · Post by **sonf** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:35 am

After googling for
SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
the result on linuxquestions.org:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/244052
The post #10 is OK, so check your ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc file.
My new and working one looks like:

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[Misc]
LastConfiguredApp=KDE System Notifications

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

The old was

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[Misc]
LastConfiguredApp=KDE System Notifications

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false

It solved my artsd segfault.
Hope it helps.

Assgier · Post by **Assgier** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:12 pm

My own problem with the crashing zsnes/supertux was solved by upgrading to kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 so my conclusion is that the -ck8 kernel was unstable on playing audio, i think that it was fixed in -ck9, but since i'm now using the gentoo sources i haven't tested it

That did, however, not fix the problem where kde-sounds didn't play using kde's own internal system, therefore i used /usr/bin/play as external player... Till now

After sonf's reply, i altered my ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc a little and, like a miracle, it's now working again

So KDE 3.3 still has a little bug i think; it's not altering the knotifyrc file correctly

Well anyways, thanks a lot for your reply sonf, because this topic was outdated

sonf wrote:After googling for
SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
the result on linuxquestions.org:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/244052
The post #10 is OK, so check your ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc file.
My new and working one looks like:
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[Misc]
LastConfiguredApp=KDE System Notifications

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true
The old was
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[Misc]
LastConfiguredApp=KDE System Notifications

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false
It solved my artsd segfault.
Hope it helps.

PT_LAmb · Post by **PT_LAmb** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:46 pm

Hi everyone,

I had a similar problem with arts-1.3.1 communicating with ALSA. Everytime I started artsd or artswrapper, I would get an unpleasent

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ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe

The only way I found to workaround this problem, was to force artsd to use OSS instead of ALSA appending a switch as follows:

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artswrapper -a oss

or as root:

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artsd -a oss

I hope this helps someone.

Ricardo

fmmarzoa · Post by **fmmarzoa** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:55 am

Same problem here and I've found no solution yet. I dont want to use OSS. I'm thinking about move from arts to another solution.

PT_LAmb · Post by **PT_LAmb** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:53 pm

fmmarzoa wrote:Same problem here and I've found no solution yet. I dont want to use OSS. I'm thinking about move from arts to another solution.

Try Dmix, if you get it working, drop us a line. I haven't had the time to try it yet, too much work.

Good luck,
Ricardo

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