artsd crashes with kde 3.3

gyratedotorg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 89

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.

pdaphreak · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

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 · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 39

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 · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

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

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gyratedotorg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 89

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 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

sonf · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 2

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:

Assgier · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

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 :roll:

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

PT_LAmb · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject:

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

fmmarzoa · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 17

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 · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: Same problem here