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 ... I might be assuming to much if I assume another user is significant.
I don't see why the desktop owner would be the only one that can play a sound. But in any case have you checked to see if the sound device
I based my presumption based on past behavior (4.2-4.6, 5.0-5.1) and seeing the logic of why a desktop user might have exclusive use - if that user is first to use it. Before this, never tried to have another user use it first.
is locked by another process? When I have sound issues I usually run lsof | grep /dev/dsp to see what, if anything is using the sound card and kill it. To me it sounds like thunderbird from the other user is
I'll do that. But in the two cases so far, I had exited the T'bird after reading the mail and expected that that should remove any locks and close any open files.
accessing the sound card directly, perhaps preventing other apps from accessing it. Some desktop setups include a sound daemon like esd or karts(?), to facilitate multiple things accessing the sound card simultaneously, but I'm not sure what their capabilities/limitations are as I rarely if ever use them.
I'll check this out too. The sound daemon is available, esound-0.2.36-3, and I see a config file. I'll start checking the docs, configs, etc. to see what I can discover.
nate
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Thanks for the time and thoughts Nate.