artsd hanging.

[Than Ngo]

Robert Couture wrote:

>Hello...
>
>With the latest Rawhide update, I am getting serious sound issues.
>
>I use KDE and ALSA is failing completely.  I get failed to start sound
>service messages on startup occasionally (but not always) I am also
>getting failures in KNotify saying that KNotify has crashed trying to
>start KNotify.
>
>I get no sound when trying to test sound with hardware set to Auto
>Detect, yet I get sound when testing using Threaded Open Sound.
>
>I also receive CPU Overloaded - aborting messages and artsd is using
>49-50% CPU for both User and System for almost a 100% usage total.
>
>Before the latest updates, I never did have Midi support.  Now I have
>Midi support showing up in Sound System which does not work.
>
>I have a cheap ES-1370 sound card that has given me no issues before now
>(with the exception of Midi support.)
>
>Is anyone else experiencing these type of issues with the latest update?
>Better yet, any suggestion for trouble shooting and fixing this
>issue? :)
>
>Robert.
>
>
>  
>
it's a bug in alsa-lib, which has caused this problem, please update to 
alsa-lib-1.0.9rc2-4.

Than