Re: [correction] Re: No sound in consoles

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NoOp wrote:
When I press ctrl-Alt-F1 to bring up the first text console all sound
that is currently playing in Gnome are stopped.
If I press alt-F7 to go back to Gnome it starts playing again.
Also if I start an audio player in a console such as mplayer there is no
sound.
However, it works if doing it through a gnome-terminal.
Any tips on how this can be fixed?

It's working as designed. A tty consoe is just that, a tty console.
Think of it this way; you are playing Windows Media Player in Windows
XP, you then switch to a DOS prompt - sound stops. You start Windows XP
again - sound starts.

Well that was a dumb reply & my apologies - I should have tried it first.

If I bring up realplayer and then switch to tty1 ctrl-alt-f1 the music
continues to play. I believe there is an option in mplayer to stop the
sound if you switch screens.

Hi NoOp.

Yeah, I was going to say that's not quite right. If I start sound in
MythTV/XMMS/Flash in Firefox and then switch to a TTY sound continues to
play. Switching to a TTY is not quite the same as shutting down Windows
to get to a DOS prompt.

Not to mention you can't shut down to a DOS prompt in Windows XP as DOS
does not exist there anymore. :) Perhaps you mean by opening a command
prompt window and then making it fullscreen by hitting CRTL+Enter ? But
then, if you do that in Windows your sound will continue to play - the
multitasking works.

I think we need clarification from the OP - he said all sound currently
playing in Gnome stops. Perhaps he is using OSS instead of ALSA for
some reason?

Here's what I would do:

- - open System --> Preferences --> Main Menu and then in the Preferences
menu turn on the Multimedia Systems Selector item
- - go to Preferences --> Multimedia Systems Selector and check what
plugin is being used for Audio output
- - try changing it to ALSA or ESD and see if that helps

Just a thought.


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