[jokosher-devel] Problems with sound sinks

["Greg Lowe" <greg vis net nz>]

I've filed it now - wanted to check this wasn't an obvious config
issue first - Im a recent linux convert.

The app is very usable for a 0.2, keep up the good work guys.......

Greg.

On 11/27/06, Jono Bacon <jonobacon gmail com> wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Greg Lowe <greg vis net nz> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've had problems when switching from Jokosher to Totem to play an Ogg.
> >
> > Totem appears to be playing normally but does not produce any sound.
> > If I close Jokosher then you can hear totem.
> >
> > I've also had a problem when trying to playback sound within jokosher
> > after switch from another app (I think it was xmms). I get a dialog
> > with the following text:
> >
> >       Argh! Something went wrong and a serious error occurred:
> >
> >       Resource busy or not available.
> >
> >       gstalsasink.c(636): gst_alsasink_open (): /timeline/playbackbin/
> >       alsasink0:
> >       Device 'hw:0' is busy
> >
> > After closing and reopening Jokosher, i got the same error again.
> > After logging out of gnome and logging in again - I still got the same
> > error message.
> >
> > I had to restart!
> >
> > Is there some way to reset alsa or the device driver - with out having
> > to restart?
>
> Yeah this is obvously a problem with apps hogging the device. I would
> assume this is a bug in either ALSA or GStreamer's ALSA sinks, or
> maybe in dmix if you are running it.
>
> Is this filed as a bug?
>
>   Jono