[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#613655: systemwide sound disappears when starting scid

Tue Apr 5 09:59:06 UTC 2011

Hi Edmund,

I do not have a clue, maybe this bug is better placed at the packages 
"snack" or "alsa-base"

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=alsa-base

I am CC-ing the alsa package team and hopefully they have any idea or 
hint for us where to look at.

Regards,

Oliver

Bug Report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613655

On 04.04.2011 01:54, Edmund Paxton wrote:
> --- On Sun, 4/3/11, Edmund Paxton<edmundpaxton at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Edmund Paxton<edmundpaxton at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#613655: systemwide sound disappears when starting scid
> To: "Oliver Korff"<ok at xynyx.de>
> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 10:23 PM
>
> Dear Oliver,
> I am extremely sorry, too, for my late response, I absolutely forgot this bug. Well, I'm in the sid branch now (alsa-base1.0.23-dfg, scid4.3, vlc1.1.8), but the problem still appears. So vlc or a flash application/video runs, with perfect sound. Then I start scid, sound disappears. Closing scid doesn't help, and pause/play too. With (for example) Youtube I should refresh the page to have its sound again. When scid runs, I can start a new Youtube video, flash application or something with vlc (remember, not from paused state), sound appears.
> I hope it is not confusing. My installation is the default system without GUI, then fluxbox, vlc, flashplugin-nonfree (with chromium or firefox), and scid. Well, I don't remember I installed alsa-base, but aptitude tells me it was non-automatic installation. Where can
>   I check my soundweights? Maybe the sequence of my installation was X, vlc, scid, and THEN alsa-base, and probably this ruined the weighting chain. I don't know if it is important there, but I hope I helped you.
> I will perform an OS-reinstall in a few days. I'll install stable_amd64, and will try to install X, fluxbox, vlc, browser, flashplugin-nonfree, alsa-base and scid. I'll send a mail about the issues.
> Sorry for my bad English, and thanks your work :)
> EP
>
> --- On Mon, 2/28/11, Oliver Korff<ok at xynyx.de>  wrote:
>
> From: Oliver Korff<ok at xynyx.de>
> Subject: Re: Bug#613655: systemwide sound disappears when starting scid
> To: "Edmund Paxton"<edmundpaxton at yahoo.com>, 613655 at bugs.debian.org
> Date: Monday, February 28, 2011, 10:17
>   AM
>
> Dear Edmund,
>
> I am sorry to respond so late, but I can't reproduce.
>
> I tried to do with 1:4.2.2.cvs20110111-1 and the later version. At the
> moment I am testing with scid 4.3 and can't reproduce. But maybe I am
> misunderstanding and I would like to sort some things out, that might
> help us to get hold on the issue:
>
> First:As far as I know the behavior of sound ressources are directly
> bound to the sound system you choose. What sound system do you have
> installed? Alsa would be the default or esound maybe?
>
> My system with alsa soundsystem behaves different to yours:
> - Video-Sound has more weight than scids move-sound
> - If a video (vlc) is started scids move-sound is disabled
> - If the video stops: move-sound is there as before
>
> That Video-Sound has more weight than scids move-sound, sounds
> tolerable, and might be caused due to hardware/soundcard access.
>
> In my
>   opinion this problem is related and caused by the sound system, so
> I will try to find out more information there.
>
> Any further information, especially of your sound system, would help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver
>
> On 16.02.2011 14:04, Edmund Paxton wrote:
>> Package: scid
>> Version: 1:4.2.2.cvs20110111-1
>> Severity: important
>>
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>> running vlc or flash applications are losing their sound in the exact moment scid is started. video isn't affected.
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>>     APT prefers testing
>>     APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>> Versions of packages scid depends on:
>> ii
>   libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
>> ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-10       GCC support library
>> ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-10         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
>> ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
>> ii  oss-compat              0.0.4+nmu3       OSS compatibility package
>> ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
>> ii  tcl8.5
>      8.5.8-2          Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
>> ii  tk8.5                   8.5.8-1          Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 -
>> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
>>
>> Versions of packages scid recommends:
>> ii  libsnack2             2.2.10-dfsg1-9     Sound extension to Tcl/Tk and Pyth
>> ii  libtk-img             1:1.3-release-9+b2 Extended image format support for
>> ii  tdom                  0.8.3~20080525-3   A fast XML/DOM/XPath/XSLT extensio
>> ii  texlive-games         2009-10
>              TeX Live: Games typesetting
>>
>> Versions of packages scid suggests:
>> pn  crafty<none>      (no description available)
>> pn  glaurung<none>      (no description available)
>> pn  phalanx<none>      (no description available)
>> pn  scid-spell-data | scid-rating<none>      (no description available)
>> ii  stockfish                     1.8.0-4    strong chess engine, to play chess
>> pn  toga2
>                 <none>      (no description available)
>>
>> -- no debconf information
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