Re: [correction] Re: No sound in consoles

On 03/29/2008 11:06 AM, Christian wrote:
Hi,


On 2008-03-29 at 10:49 NoOp wrote:

On 03/29/2008 10:41 AM, NoOp wrote:
On 03/29/2008 06:32 AM, Christian wrote:
Hi all,
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?
Many thanks,
Christian



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.



I just took the mplayer as an example. If you try to play an audio file in the movie player the same result happens.
The Realplayer you are refering to, is it Helix player?
Many thanks,
Christian


It's http://www.real.com/linux/ based on Helix. I get the same (plays in
tty) using rhythmbox etc.

However, there is an option to stop sound on vido when you switch
screens, I just can't remember what the switch is right now. Discovered
it when a relative was viewing porn on desktop 2 & switched to desktop 1
as soon as I came in the room - sound would stop when he switched
desktops. Took me awhile to figure it out.. so I _think_ the same would
apply if he switched to a tty.

Again, apologies for the really, really dumb initial response. I'm on
coffee #2 so hopefully I won't do it again & eventually can figure out
what the sound switch was :-)


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