Cannot open display

**Stephen** · 08-13-2003, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by ferreter

But with the music CDs, kmix doesn't have the CD muted but when I go to press play xmms seems to freeze. I use the via82cxxx_audio module. Again, other sounds work just fine, its just the CDs. dmesg gives me a line that says: via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11

I get the drain error also and xmms also appears to freeze but plays mp3 or ogg's fine after I kill off the arts sound server never tried playing a CD though. Try this ps xa | grep arts then use kill number_of_artsd_process ie.

Code:

[02:32 PM Wed Aug 13: stephen @ ~]
>$ ps xa | grep arts
  616 ?        S      0:01 artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a oss -d -b 16 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
[02:32 PM Wed Aug 13: stephen @ ~]
>$ kill 616

**ferreter** · 08-13-2003, 07:44 PM

I had to kill the process called:

artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

and CDs now work!

Stephen thanks a bunch bro.

Now I have to find out where that process is getting started

**Stephen** · 08-13-2003, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by ferreter

Now I have to find out where that process is getting started

Go into the Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System in the aRts tab uncheck the start arts sound sever on KDE startup.

**ferreter** · 08-13-2003, 10:59 PM

What exactly is the arts sound server used for anyways? If we have alsa, why would we need another sound server?

I apologize for all the questions but I'm slowly working my way to being completely MS free at home and always want to know what's going on in my systems

**Dave_Bechtel** · 08-13-2003, 11:02 PM

--To get a better XFree86 config file, you can DL the SuSE 8.2 LiveCD and use ' sax2 ' to generate it, then cp the file over to your Knoppix install and tweak it if necessary. This enables the best fullscreen modes in VMware.

ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/Linux/suse/pub...live-eval-8.2/

)This is just one of the mirrors.(

Originally Posted by ferreter

I eventually want to get VMware running but not until I iron out these bugs hehe.

**ferreter** · 08-13-2003, 11:07 PM

Thanks! I'll definately look into doing that. Why would I get a better xf86config file this way though?

Right now I use the Gforce2 40/40 mx card in my machine and get a nice resolution in Xfree with only a slightly noticable refresh glich in the lower left corner of the screen.