Mpd/sonata issue
I followed the wiki but sonata does not play music at all.
Is there a hidden step or am I just a little slow?
#Edit
I think I have all the codecs installed, amarok works fine.
Last edited by dustinw (2009-03-17 01:05:35)
Maybe you've forgot to configure the "device" section in mpd.conf?
You should specify something, for example like this:
############################# MIXER ############################
# MPD needs to know what mixer settings to change when you
# adjust the volume. If you don't specify one here, MPD will
# pick one based on which ones it was compiled with support for.
# An example for controlling an ALSA mixer:
mixer_type "alsa"
mixer_device "default"
mixer_control "PCM"
# An example for controlling an OSS mixer:
#mixer_type "oss"
#mixer_device "/dev/mixer"
#mixer_control "PCM"
# If you want MPD to adjust the volume of audio sent to the
# audio outputs, you can tell it to use the software mixer:
#mixer_type "software"
Or what now is applicable in your system. Looks like it plays but doesn't know what device to use.
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Mpd + sonata = really, really nice!
Man! Being able to kill X and still keep the tunes going is superb! It's really really super nice. I'm going to setup a hifi system at my new apartment based around mpd and sonata when I fix my speaker foam that someone kicked a hole through at my mom's place
Anyway, don't mean to be cluttering up the forums with these unnecessary messages. If you come across this and haven't tried the mpd + sonata combo, you should tryitreallyfast ... and see if you like itI tried sonata and gmpc. I think gmpc is better in managing files than sonata. Is there any other client recommended for its functionalitiy you would like to suggest like editing id3 tags from the clinet as madman does.
Also, the multimedia keys assigned to gmpc becomes exclusive to it as you cannot use it in other programs. For example, i assigned "c" for play/pause and now i'm unable to type "C" in any other program, like text editor or web browsers. Is there a way to overcome this problem such that the key works only when gmpc window is active.
And when i close gmpc, mpd keeps on playing the song. sonata has an option which stops mpd when sonata is closed, but not gmpc.
Last edited by ravisghosh (2007-05-29 05:54:14) -
Hi again!
I've installed mpd and sonata but i don't see my library in sonata .
This is my /etc/mpd.conf file
# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.
# Files and directories #######################################################
# This setting controls the top directory which MPD will search to discover the
# available audio files and add them to the daemon's online database. This
# setting defaults to the XDG directory, otherwise the music directory will be
# be disabled and audio files will only be accepted over ipc socket (using
# file:// protocol) or streaming files over an accepted protocol.
music_directory "/home/andreas/Downloads"
# This setting sets the MPD internal playlist directory. The purpose of this
# directory is storage for playlists created by MPD. The server will use
# playlist files not created by the server but only if they are in the MPD
# format. This setting defaults to playlist saving being disabled.
#playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
# This setting sets the location of the MPD database. This file is used to
# load the database at server start up and store the database while the
# server is not up. This setting defaults to disabled which will allow
# MPD to accept files over ipc socket (using file:// protocol) or streaming
# files over an accepted protocol.
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
# These settings are the locations for the daemon log files for the daemon.
# These logs are great for troubleshooting, depending on your log_level
# settings.
# The special value "syslog" makes MPD use the local syslog daemon. This
# setting defaults to logging to syslog, otherwise logging is disabled.
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
# This setting sets the location of the file which stores the process ID
# for use of mpd --kill and some init scripts. This setting is disabled by
# default and the pid file will not be stored.
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"
# This setting sets the location of the file which contains information about
# most variables to get MPD back into the same general shape it was in before
# it was brought down. This setting is disabled by default and the server
# state will be reset on server start up.
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
# General music daemon options ################################################
# This setting specifies the user that MPD will run as. MPD should never run as
# root and you may use this setting to make MPD change its user ID after
# initialization. This setting is disabled by default and MPD is run as the
# current user.
user "mpd"
# This setting sets the address for the daemon to listen on. Careful attention
# should be paid if this is assigned to anything other then the default, any.
# This setting can deny access to control of the daemon.
# For network
#bind_to_address "any"
# And for Unix Socket
#bind_to_address "~/.mpd/socket"
# This setting is the TCP port that is desired for the daemon to get assigned
# to.
#port "6600"
# This setting controls the type of information which is logged. Available
# setting arguments are "default", "secure" or "verbose". The "verbose" setting
# argument is recommended for troubleshooting, though can quickly stretch
# available resources on limited hardware storage.
#log_level "default"
# If you have a problem with your MP3s ending abruptly it is recommended that
# you set this argument to "no" to attempt to fix the problem. If this solves
# the problem, it is highly recommended to fix the MP3 files with vbrfix
# (available from <http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.php>), at which
# point gapless MP3 playback can be enabled.
#gapless_mp3_playback "yes"
# This setting enables MPD to create playlists in a format usable by other
# music players.
#save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "no"
# This setting defines a list of tag types that will be extracted during the
# audio file discovery process. Optionally, 'comment' can be added to this
# list.
#metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
# Symbolic link behavior ######################################################
# If this setting is set to "yes", MPD will discover audio files by following
# symbolic links outside of the configured music_directory.
#follow_outside_symlinks "yes"
# If this setting is set to "yes", MPD will discover audio files by following
# symbolic links inside of the configured music_directory.
#follow_inside_symlinks "yes"
# Zeroconf / Avahi Service Discovery ##########################################
# If this setting is set to "yes", service information will be published with
# Zeroconf / Avahi.
#zeroconf_enabled "yes"
# The argument to this setting will be the Zeroconf / Avahi unique name for
# this MPD server on the network.
#zeroconf_name "Music Player"
# Permissions #################################################################
# If this setting is set, MPD will require password authorization. The password
# can setting can be specified multiple times for different password profiles.
#password "password@read,add,control,admin"
# This setting specifies the permissions a user has who has not yet logged in.
#default_permissions "read,add,control,admin"
# Input #######################################################################
input {
plugin "curl"
# proxy "proxy.isp.com:8080"
# proxy_user "user"
# proxy_password "password"
# Audio Output ################################################################
# MPD supports various audio output types, as well as playing through multiple
# audio outputs at the same time, through multiple audio_output settings
# blocks. Setting this block is optional, though the server will only attempt
# autodetection for one sound card.
# See <http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration#Audio_Outputs> for examples of
# other audio outputs.
# An example of an ALSA output:
#audio_output {
# type "alsa"
# name "My ALSA Device"
## device "hw:0,0" # optional
## format "44100:16:2" # optional
## mixer_device "default" # optional
## mixer_control "PCM" # optional
## mixer_index "0" # optional
# An example of an OSS output:
#audio_output {
# type "oss"
# name "My OSS Device"
## device "/dev/dsp" # optional
## format "44100:16:2" # optional
## mixer_device "/dev/mixer" # optional
## mixer_control "PCM" # optional
# An example of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast):
#audio_output {
# type "shout"
# encoding "ogg" # optional
# name "My Shout Stream"
# host "localhost"
# port "8000"
# mount "/mpd.ogg"
# password "hackme"
# quality "5.0"
# bitrate "128"
# format "44100:16:1"
## protocol "icecast2" # optional
## user "source" # optional
## description "My Stream Description" # optional
## genre "jazz" # optional
## public "no" # optional
## timeout "2" # optional
# An example of a httpd output (built-in HTTP streaming server):
#audio_output {
# type "httpd"
# name "My HTTP Stream"
# encoder "vorbis" # optional, vorbis or lame
# port "8000"
## quality "5.0" # do not define if bitrate is defined
# bitrate "128" # do not define if quality is defined
# format "44100:16:1"
# An example of a pulseaudio output (streaming to a remote pulseaudio server)
#audio_output {
# type "pulse"
# name "My Pulse Output"
## server "remote_server" # optional
## sink "remote_server_sink" # optional
## Example "pipe" output:
#audio_output {
# type "pipe"
# name "my pipe"
# command "aplay -f cd 2>/dev/null"
## Or if you're want to use AudioCompress
# command "AudioCompress -m | aplay -f cd 2>/dev/null"
## Or to send raw PCM stream through PCM:
# command "nc example.org 8765"
# format "44100:16:2"
## An example of a null output (for no audio output):
#audio_output {
# type "null"
# name "My Null Output"
# This setting will change all decoded audio to be converted to the specified
# format before being passed to the audio outputs. By default, this setting is
# disabled.
#audio_output_format "44100:16:2"
# If MPD has been compiled with libsamplerate support, this setting specifies
# the sample rate converter to use. Possible values can be found in the
# mpd.conf man page or the libsamplerate documentation. By default, this is
# setting is disabled.
#samplerate_converter "Fastest Sinc Interpolator"
# Volume control mixer ########################################################
# These are the global volume control settings. By default, this setting will
# be detected to the available audio output device, with preference going to
# hardware mixing. Hardware and software mixers for individual audio_output
# sections cannot yet be mixed.
# An example for controlling an ALSA, OSS or Pulseaudio mixer; If this
# setting is used other sound applications will be affected by the volume
# being controlled by MPD.
#mixer_type "hardware"
# An example for controlling all mixers through software. This will control
# all controls, even if the mixer is not supported by the device and will not
# affect any other sound producing applications.
#mixer_type "software"
# This example will not allow MPD to touch the mixer at all and will disable
# all volume controls.
#mixer_type "disabled"
# Normalization automatic volume adjustments ##################################
# This setting specifies the type of ReplayGain to use. This setting can have
# the argument "album" or "track". See <http://www.replaygain.org> for more
# details. This setting is disabled by default.
#replaygain "album"
# This setting sets the pre-amp used for files that have ReplayGain tags. By
# default this setting is disabled.
#replaygain_preamp "0"
# This setting enables on-the-fly normalization volume adjustment. This will
# result in the volume of all playing audio to be adjusted so the output has
# equal "loudness". This setting is disabled by default.
#volume_normalization "no"
# MPD Internal Buffering ######################################################
# This setting adjusts the size of internal decoded audio buffering. Changing
# this may have undesired effects. Don't change this if you don't know what you
# are doing.
#audio_buffer_size "2048"
# This setting controls the percentage of the buffer which is filled before
# beginning to play. Increasing this reduces the chance of audio file skipping,
# at the cost of increased time prior to audio playback.
#buffer_before_play "10%"
# Resource Limitations ########################################################
# These settings are various limitations to prevent MPD from using too many
# resources. Generally, these settings should be minimized to prevent security
# risks, depending on the operating resources.
#connection_timeout "60"
#max_connections "10"
#max_playlist_length "16384"
#max_command_list_size "2048"
#max_output_buffer_size "8192"
# Character Encoding ##########################################################
# If file or directory names do not display correctly for your locale then you
# may need to modify this setting. After modification of this setting mpd
# --create-db must be run to change the database.
#filesystem_charset "UTF-8"
# This setting controls the encoding that ID3v1 tags should be converted from.
#id3v1_encoding "ISO-8859-1"
I've add the mpd daemon in rc.conf and i've chosen my directory /home/andreas/Downloads in sonata .Also i put mpd:ALL to etc/hosts.allow
Sonata connects fine to the server but i can't see my libary .
What might be the issue ?
Thanks again
Last edited by shak (2010-06-10 11:27:13)If you continue to have issues with permissions, the solution i use is to simply run MPD as my normal user, storing all the necessary directories and files under ~/.mpd and just pointing it at the config file I stuck there:
$ mpd ~/.mpd/config
No more permissions issues! There's an explanation of this in the wiki. -
MPD Pulseaudio issues [SOLVED]
Hi,
I've just setup pulseaudio on my system as I was tired of not being able to handle simultaneous output whilst one program had control of the soundcard (using alsa).
I run MPD from startup with the user "mpd", unfortunately when it starts, it starts it's own pulseaudio session which conflicts with that when I launch into X, therefore I can either have sound from mpd (that pulseaudio session uses the soundcard) or other programs launched as me e.g. chromium, rhythmbox, mplayer etc (and my user's pulseaudio session locks the soundcard).
What's the best way to remedy this situation so that I only have one pulseaudio session running? I'm toying with the idea of launching mpd as myself using .xinitrc. Ideally I want to just run one pulseaudio session and leave my mpd configuration as is.
Any thoughts or ideas would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
Last edited by will.price94 (2012-02-14 16:51:19)OK Scott, I'll do that. Thank you for your suggestion. Hopefully it will remedy the issues I'm having.
EDIT: Worked a treat, no more issues!
Last edited by will.price94 (2012-02-14 16:51:05) -
How can I get mpd + sonata working
Hello, I have followed the wiki page for MPD: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd , but I can't get it working, always sonata is telling to me that MPD connection is time out.
from /etc/mpd.conf I have modified only that:
music_directory "/home/davigetto/Musica"
I make successfully /etc/rc.d/mpd create-db:
[root@samantha davigetto]# /etc/rc.d/mpd create-db
:: Creating mpd's database ... [BUSY] :: Output written to /var/log/mpd/mpd.db-creation [DONE]
and when trying to start mpd daemon, always it fails:
[root@samantha davigetto]# /etc/rc.d/mpd restart
:: Stopping Music Player Daemon [FAIL]
:: Starting Music Player Daemon [FAIL]
[root@samantha davigetto]#
what steps must I follow to get MPD working correctly, and sonata too?
GreetingsHi, u need to have /etc/mpd.conf configured properly for mpd to work, try this for example:
music_directory "~/home/davigetto/Musica"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "~/.mpd/mpd.error"
pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file "~/.mpd/mpdstate"
user "davigetto"
bind_to_address "127.0.0.1"
port "6600"
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
mixer_type "software"
Reboot and then type in terminal 'mpd --create-db'
After the database is created start sonata and you should be able to play your music. -
Hello all,
I'm not a guru of systemd but I try to have an idea of what's going on. I had set up systemd user session with previous versions. I think also my system is not propeprly configured as I see multiple errors in journal.
I'm attaching my logs from journal --this-log with hopes that someone will understand something more than me. As it stands I can't start mpd which I had it configured as user. Also I think I don't completely understand the systemd user session.
journal.log: http://pastebin.com/LHKqb0DN
Thanks in advance for any comments~$ systemctl status [email protected]
[email protected]
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)
~$ cat .config/systemd/user/mpd.service 3 ↵
[Unit]
Description=Music Player Daemon
After=network.target sound.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon /home/inglor/.mpd/mpd.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target -
Having Issues with High CPU Usage with fluxbox & pekwm
Greetings,
I have searched for this issue and it seems that something similar has happened in the past with an old xorg, and it seems that someone is having a similar issue that they can point to kde as being the culrpit. However in my case, this is a fresh install and is not using any kde libs. Please allow me to explain the issue.
The power supply on my main computer finally gave out, and being incredibly poor at the moment I can not yet replace it. So, I pull out an older computer that I had once set up for my kids, but took it away from them when they were abusing it. I always make backup dvds and such monthly so I didn't have to worry about any lose of data, however I desired to keep my larger hard drives from my main computer. After testing to ensure that the hard drives were fine, I did some minor surgery, and did a fresh install of arch linux onto my back up computer. Since I prefer pekwm, I installed pekwm as my wm of choice, and outfitted it quickly with mpd+sonata, firefox, pcmanfm, and tint2. Then I rebooted into my pekwm 'desktop'.
It was running sluggish. Firefox was easily maxing the cpu up and beyond 100% and it felt ten times worse than any heavy DE I used in the past. I checked to make sure I had the right video driver installed. As this computer runs a 64MB nVidia GeForce2 MX with TV out video card, I searched nvidia's page and the arch wiki, noting that the driver needed is nvidia-96xx. Well I had already suspected that during install, and thus had installed such driver. I double checked my xorg.config and it has the right driver listed.
So I checked out some lighter browsers. I tried both Midori and Iron (which is similar to Chrome but without google spyware or whatever). Well both run better than firefox, Midori being the lightest one, but Iron quickly being my favorite. Still, the problem remained. Moving windows caused cpu spikes, opening more than one tab, or more than one program caused cpu spikes and the computer to slow down and sputter, freezing at times.
So I tried out another wm, fluxbos, which is another of my favorites. Seemed somewhat better but only fractionally, which I consider odd because pekwm has always seemed snappier than fluxbox to me in the past. Running lxtask (still mouse dependent, sorry lol), I was able to take note of the following...
FLUXBOX
lxtask 6% CPU usage average
PCManFM 5% CPU Average
Fluxbox 1% to 2% cpu usage
gksu 3% cpu usage
pidgin 3% to 7% cpu usage
firefox up to 62% cpu usage
midori up to 38% cpu usage
iron up to 50% cpu usage
mpd 11% cpu uage
Xorg (with no window movement) 2% cpu usage
Xorg (moving windows around) up to 80% cpu usage
PEKWM
lxtask 6% CPU
pidgin 7% cpu
tint2 1% cpu
pekwm 1% to 5% cpu
pcmanfm 7% cpu
firefox up to 85% cpu
python 1% cpu
midori up to 38% cpu
iron up to 25% cpu (odd...)
Xorg (with no window movement) 1% cpu
Xorg (when moving windows around) up to 80% cpu
Both were using around 118 MB RAm and weren't yet touching swap. As I see it I am thinking xorg or video driver related, yet I already made sure that I had the correct video driver. Here's my Xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu Jun 25 18:57:07 PDT 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Here's some specs on this computer, including video cards and such...
Computer
Summary
Computer
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
Memory 1034MB (239MB used)
Operating System Arch Linux
User Name mythus (Travis K. Randall)
Date/Time Thu 08 Oct 2009 05:24:52 PM CDT
Display
Resolution 1600x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2
Input Devices
Macintosh mouse button emulation
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
Logitech USB Optical Mouse
Printers
No printers found
SCSI Disks
ATA ST3160212A
ATA IC35L090AVV207-0
LITE-ON LTR-16102B
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552D
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.30-ARCH (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 9 12:37:32 UTC 2009
C Library GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.4.1 (GCC)
Distribution Arch Linux
Current Session
Computer Name norova
User Name mythus (Travis K. Randall)
Home Directory /home/mythus
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: Fluxbox)
Misc
Uptime 11 hours, 38 minutes
Load Average 0.20, 0.38, 0.34
Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules
ipv6 IPv6 protocol stack for Linux
reiserfs ReiserFS journaled filesystem
usbhid USB HID core driver
hid
arc4 ARC4 Cipher Algorithm
ecb ECB block cipher algorithm
snd_seq_dummy ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
rt2500pci Ralink RT2500 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver.
snd_seq_oss OSS-compatible sequencer module
rt2x00pci rt2x00 pci library
snd_seq_midi_event MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
rt2x00lib rt2x00 library
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
led_class LED Class Interface
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
input_polldev Generic implementation of a polled input device
mac80211 IEEE 802.11 subsystem
snd_intel8x0 Intel 82801AA,82901AB,i810,i820,i830,i840,i845,MX440; SiS 7012; Ali 5455
uhci_hcd USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
snd_pcm_oss PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
fan ACPI Fan Driver
cfg80211 wireless configuration support
ppdev
ehci_hcd USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
snd_mixer_oss Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_ac97_codec Universal interface for Audio Codec '97
nvidia
lp
eeprom_93cx6 EEPROM 93cx6 chip driver
parport_pc PC-style parallel port driver
ohci1394 Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE-1394 controllers
parport
psmouse PS/2 mouse driver
ac97_bus
ieee1394
serio_raw Raw serio driver
8139too RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver
e100 Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
pcspkr PC Speaker beeper driver
battery ACPI Battery Driver
8139cp RealTek RTL-8139C+ series 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
i2c_core I2C-Bus main module
iTCO_wdt Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver
mii MII hardware support library
evdev Input driver event char devices
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
ac ACPI AC Adapter Driver
iTCO_vendor_support Intel TCO Vendor Specific WatchDog Timer Driver Support
usbcore
soundcore Core sound module
sg SCSI generic (sg) driver
shpchp Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
processor ACPI Processor Driver
thermal ACPI Thermal Zone Driver
pci_hotplug PCI Hot Plug PCI Core
intel_agp
button ACPI Button Driver
agpgart AGP GART driver
rtc_cmos Driver for PC-style 'CMOS' RTCs
rtc_core RTC class support
rtc_lib
ext4 Fourth Extended Filesystem
mbcache Meta block cache (for extended attributes)
jbd2
crc16 CRC16 calculations
sr_mod SCSI cdrom (sr) driver
cdrom
sd_mod SCSI disk (sd) driver
ata_piix SCSI low-level driver for Intel PIIX/ICH ATA controllers
ata_generic low-level driver for generic ATA
pata_acpi SCSI low-level driver for ATA in ACPI mode
libata Library module for ATA devices
floppy
scsi_mod SCSI core
Display
Display
Display
Resolution 1600x900 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.6.3.901
Monitors
Monitor 0 1600x900 pixels
Extensions
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
NV-CONTROL
NV-GLX
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2
Version 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.13
Direct Rendering Yes
Processor
Processor
Processor
Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
Family, model, stepping 15, 1, 2 (Pentium 4)
Vendor Intel
Configuration
Cache Size 256kb
Frequency 1594.77MHz
BogoMIPS 3190.44
Byte Order Little Endian
Features
FDIV Bug no
HLT Bug no
F00F Bug no
Coma Bug no
Has FPU yes
Cache
Cache information not available
Capabilities
fpu Floating Point Unit
vme Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr Model Specific Registers
pae Physical Address Extensions
mce Machine Check Architeture
cx8 CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
sep Fast System Call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT)
mtrr Memory Type Range Registers
pge Page Global Enable
mca Machine Check Architecture
cmov Conditional Move instruction
pat Page Attribute Table
pse36 36bit Page Size Extensions
clflush Cache Line Flush instruction
dts Debug Store
acpi Thermal Monitor and Software Controlled Clock
mmx MMX technology
fxsr FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
sse SSE instructions
sse2 SSE2 (WNI) instructions
ss Self Snoop
ht HyperThreading
tm Thermal Monitor
up smp kernel running on up
pebs Precise-Event Based Sampling
bts Branch Trace Store
Memory
Memory
Total Memory 1034084 kB
Free Memory 94276 kB
Buffers 40536 kB
Cached 700112 kB
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Active 170788 kB
Inactive 726844 kB
Active(anon) 74112 kB
Inactive(anon) 88348 kB
Active(file) 96676 kB
Inactive(file) 638496 kB
Unevictable 12 kB
Mlocked 12 kB
High Memory 139144 kB
Free High Memory 252 kB
Low Memory 894940 kB
Free Low Memory 94024 kB
Virtual Memory 2931852 kB
Free Virtual Memory 2931852 kB
Dirty 12 kB
Writeback 0 kB
AnonPages 156996 kB
Mapped 57392 kB
Slab 24260 kB
SReclaimable 18864 kB
SUnreclaim 5396 kB
PageTables 1376 kB
NFS_Unstable 0 kB
Bounce 0 kB
WritebackTmp 0 kB
CommitLimit 3448892 kB
Committed_AS 404212 kB
VmallocTotal 122880 kB
VmallocUsed 27648 kB
VmallocChunk 52368 kB
DirectMap4k 32760 kB
DirectMap4M 876544 kB
Benchmarks
CPU Blowfish
CPU Blowfish
This Machine 1595 MHz 50.176
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 26.1876862
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 172.816713
CPU CryptoHash
CPU CryptoHash
This Machine 1595 MHz 11.071
CPU Fibonacci
CPU Fibonacci
This Machine 1595 MHz 74.202
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 8.1375674
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 58.07682
CPU N-Queens
CPU N-Queens
This Machine 1595 MHz 132.704
FPU FFT
FPU FFT
This Machine 1595 MHz 104.630
FPU Raytracing
FPU Raytracing
This Machine 1595 MHz 212.639
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 40.8816714
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 161.312647
So what I am wanting help with is finding the solution to the cpu usage so that I can use this computer at least until I can afford a new power supply or whatever. I am open to any good suggestions, though I must state I am not really interested in tiling wm's at the moment. I am just not a true minimalist.
Thanks in advance for any and all help. I understand that there is a lot of info in this post, but it is my hope that with this info the problem can be solved. If there is info I didn't provide that is needed, please let me know.also check that you have
session.screen0.opaqueMove false
in your .fluxbox/init this will probably help a bit if it is currently true,
Last edited by Cyrusm (2009-01-26 13:52:13) -
Yesterday, I was finally able to install arch. I immediately went installing programs, which went well untill I got to mpd/sonata. Mpd seems to be working, and I can see my songs within sonata. However, when I click on a song to play, it appears to start but stops immediately. If i start sonata from a terminal, it doesn't display any errors.
Here's my /etc/mpd.conf
# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.
######################## REQUIRED PATHS ########################
#music_directory "~/music"
#playlist_directory "~/playlists"
#db_file "~/mpd.db"
#log_file "~/mpd.log"
#error_file "~/mpd.error"
music_directory "/media/data/mpd/music"
playlist_directory "/media/data/mpd/music/pls"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.error"
# Note: ~ is the home directory of user set in the "user" option
######################## OPTIONAL PATHS ########################
# If you wish to use mpd --kill to stop MPD, then you must
# specify a file here in which to store MPD's process ID.
#pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"
# If specified, MPD will save its current state (playlist,
# current song, playing/paused, etc.) at exit. This will be
# used to restore the session the next time it is run.
#state_file "~/.mpd/mpdstate"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
######################## DAEMON OPTIONS ########################
# If started as root, MPD will drop root privileges and run as
# this user instead. Otherwise, MPD will run as the user it was
# started by. If left unspecified, MPD will not drop root
# privileges at all (not recommended).
user "varreon"
# The address and port to listen on.
#bind_to_address "localhost"
bind_to_address "any"
port "6600"
# Controls the amount of information that is logged. Can be
# "default", "secure", or "verbose".
#log_level "default"
########################## PERMISSIONS #########################
# MPD can require that users specify a password before using it.
# You may specify one ore more here, along with what users who
# log in with that password are allowed to do.
#password "password@read,add,control,admin"
# Specifies what permissions a user who has not logged in with a
# password has. By default, all users have full access to MPD
# if no password is specified above, or no access if one or
# more passwords are specified.
#default_permissions "read,add,control,admin"
########################## AUDIO OUTPUT ########################
# MPD supports many audio output types, as well as playing
# through multiple audio outputs at the same time. You can
# specify one or more here. If you don't specify any, MPD will
# automatically scan for a usable audio output.
# See <http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration#Audio_Outputs>
# for examples of other audio outputs.
# An example of an ALSA output:
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
options "dev=dmixer"
device "plug:dmix" # optional
# An example of an OSS output:
#audio_output {
# type "oss"
# name "My OSS Device"
# device "/dev/dsp" # optional
# format "44100:16:2" # optional
# An example of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast):
#audio_output {
# type "shout"
# name "My Shout Stream"
# host "localhost"
# port "8000"
# mount "/mpd.ogg"
# password "hackme"
# quality "5.0"
# bitrate "128"
# format "44100:16:1"
# user "source" # optional
# description "My Stream Description" # optional
# genre "jazz" # optional
# public "no" # optional
# Force all decoded audio to be converted to this format before
# being passed to the audio outputs.
#audio_output_format "44100:16:2"
############################# MIXER ############################
# MPD needs to know what mixer settings to change when you
# adjust the volume. If you don't specify one here, MPD will
# pick one based on which ones it was compiled with support for.
# An example for controlling an ALSA mixer:
#mixer_type "alsa"
#mixer_device "default"
#mixer_control "PCM"
# An example for controlling an OSS mixer:
#mixer_type "oss"
#mixer_device "/dev/mixer"
#mixer_control "PCM"
# If you want MPD to adjust the volume of audio sent to the
# audio outputs, you can tell it to use the software mixer:
#mixer_type "software"
######################### NORMALIZATION ########################
# Specifies the type of ReplayGain to use. Can be "album" or
# "track". ReplayGain will not be used if not specified. See
# <http://www.replaygain.org> for more details.
#replaygain "album"
# Sets the pre-amp used for files that have ReplayGain tags.
#replaygain_preamp "0"
# Enable on the fly volume normalization. This will cause the
# volume of all songs played to be adjusted so that they sound
# as though they are of equal loudness.
#volume_normalization "no"
########################### BUFFERING ##########################
# The size of the buffer containing decoded audio. You probably
# shouldn't change this.
#audio_buffer_size "2048"
# How much of the buffer to fill before beginning to play.
#buffer_before_play "0%"
# Similar options for the HTTP stream buffer. If you hear
# skipping while playing HTTP streams, you may wish to increase
# these.
#http_buffer_size "128"
#http_prebuffer_size "25%"
########################### HTTP PROXY #########################
# Specifies the HTTP proxy to use for playing HTTP streams.
#http_proxy_host "proxy.isp.com"
#http_proxy_port "8080"
#http_proxy_user "user"
#http_proxy_password "password"
############################# LIMITS ###########################
# These are various limits to prevent MPD from using too many
# resources. You should only change them if they start
# restricting your usage of MPD.
#connection_timeout "60"
#max_connections "5"
#max_playlist_length "16384"
#max_command_list_size "2048"
#max_output_buffer_size "8192"
###################### CHARACTER ENCODINGS #####################
# If file or directory names do not display correctly, then you
# may need to change this. In most cases it should be either
# "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8". You must recreate your database
# after changing this (use mpd --create-db).
#filesystem_charset "ISO-8859-1"
# The encoding that ID3v1 tags should be converted from.
#id3v1_encoding "ISO-8859-1"
######################### OTHER OPTIONS ########################
# The metadata types MPD will recognize.
#metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
# Enable this if you wish to use your MPD created playlists in
# other music players.
#save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "no"
Edit: Forget about the xmms comment posted earlier. Xmms works, yet sonata still doesn't.
Last edited by Varreon (2008-07-22 01:41:32)I have the exact same issue. Reboot is not helping.
Trouble is, I had it working properly in my other Arch install. I have tried ncmpc and Sonata and gmpc, they all start to play the song - I even see the CD covers (for the songs that I have CD covers for) -- but only for a split second and thenit stops.
I don't think alsa is an issue, because cplay plays all songs without a hitch.
I was hoping for a solution - but all I found was this thread and unfortunately Varreon doesn't know what he/she did to get it to work.
Could you maybe retrace your steps - if you remember them ?
EDIT : This is my mpd.error file. Having a look at it, it does seem that mpd is not recognizing mpdvol
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL mpdvol
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM mpdvol
Jul 26 10:02 : Error opening alsa device "mpdvol": No such file or directory
Last edited by Inxsible (2008-07-26 15:34:24) -
E17 on a fresh Arch Linux + gtk apps... auto mounting and other issues
hi all...
I have gone through the forums and found a similar but-not-quite-the-same thread about this, which is why I am posting a new thread - so, please excuse any redundancy/laziness.
As the topic says, I am making a new Arch Install, on my laptop that has/had arch+kdemod on it for quite some time now. I have now tarred that old install and put it on my desktop that has more RAM than this lappy. So I went with a minimalist approach - after googling for long, I managed to put together something that takes up about 350 MB RAM, when running the desktop, firefox, mplayer, openoffice, two or three terminals, and conky - which is all pretty good. But I am having some teething troubles in many issues, so any help in the following is most appreciated.
My set-up and the problems....
WM - e17, from the repos (I tried, but could not get the easy_e17 script to work properly)
FM - emelfm2
- I am not able to get my USBs, CDs, DVDs etc to mount automagically. I have HAL from the repos. This is my fstab.
/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
This setup gave me no trouble at all when using Arch-Kdemod. Now I have to be root to mount from the command line, and can not auto mount cd/dvd/USBs.
E17 file manager enabled is also no help.
browser - firefox, dillo
terminal - mrxvt
editor - leafpad
audio - mpd + sonata
video - gmplayer
sys monitor - conky
cd/dvd burner - recorder, from the repos
Openoffice, PSPP for statistics
Pidgin
Wengophone2
at the moment I am behind a proxy and haven't yet tried it, but can anyone confirm it is still working...?
epdfview
chmsee
rtorrent
feh, exhibit
dreamchess
That is the whole setup, in case it helps someone.
Thanks for reading, and waiting for suggestions about the auto mount issue.
Last edited by jaydoc (2009-03-06 00:01:34)hi all...
Thanks for the replies.
@fingel... That udev rules addition on the wiki gave me the jitters initially as it looked like I was hacking away at my systems innards, BUT, after trying everything else, including things mentioned here, nothing worked. So I finally did the udev thing, and now the USB is mounting fine.
However I still cannot get DVDs or CDs to mount. I am added to the optical group, and yet I have to click the mount icon in emelfm2 to be able to mount the CD or DVD - the only consolation is that I am able to mount it as normal user.
Any help there....? I haven't modified anything from the usual install, except for this udev thingy.
And, How can I make the mrxvt terminal show me more lines on scrolling up. Now it is allowing me to scroll up only by 10 lines or so, and I am having to pipe through less to be able to view anything meaningful in commands like yaourt -Ss
Last edited by jaydoc (2009-03-06 23:55:37) -
Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15
I'm actually kind of surprised that I've resorted to making a forum post on this topic, but really I'm just flat out of ideas.
I just got this laptop yesterday, and immediately reformatted it and installed arch. Everything's working (X, openbox, network to an extent, etc), with the exception of alsa. For some reason, aplay isn't working, or rather I don't hear any sound when I type the command "sudo aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" (sudo just to make sure it wasn't some queer permissions problem). Every channel in alsamixer is unmuted, and I even kept on increasing the volume up until everything was at 100%, still to no avail. I followed the standard procedure in the arch beginners guide, so alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and alsa-lib are all installed.
I tried running alsaconf as root, set up every card that it discovered (didn't probe for legacy chips, though), which, for reference are...
*hda-intel Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller)
*hda-intel ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
*legacy Probe Legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
and said yes to it modifying any modprobe.conf files (this is all after I had tried doing it manually as described on the alsa wiki page, mind you).
So, can anyone point me in the right direction? I can't hear anything through the speakers, or headphones if I plug them into either of the 3.5mm output jacks (yeah, there's two on this machine). I'd really like to get mpd+sonata running on this thing next, but that would be kind of pointless if I can't hear anything.Thanks, that got my speaker and one of the two headphone jacks working.
For anyone else who's having this problem, just add
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6
to your modprobe file(s)
(just to make sure, I added it to these three)
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf
Now to get mpd, sonata, wireless, bluetooth, camera, mics working. It's going to be a fun weekend ;-) -
[SOLVED] MPD is missing some directories/files.
Using MPD with Sonata for my music library, as I always have. I returned to Arch yesterday after a short Ubuntu vacation, and got everything set up the way I like it, except MPD is giving me some hassle.
I have a music library sorted by folders in the following way: /music/artist/year- albumtitle. In sonata, It displays the MPD DB as a filesystem view, but omits a handful of artist names. They exist, and they play JUST FINE in VLC (And in MPD/Sonata on Ubuntu, for that matter). So, I've deleted the db, re-created it, checked all my paths, nothing looks supect.
Any ideas?
Last edited by Kyle Carter (2009-04-29 20:07:43)hmmm so i had it right all along eh? hehe, anyways...
odd that chown -R didn't work; but, if you don't have permission to play it in mpd then you don't have permission to chown it either, you did do sudo chown right?
also, i find this little snippet useful for those cases
#!/bin/bash
# fixit
# recursively fix dir/file permissions on a given directory
# usage ./fixit /path/to/Music
if [ -d $1 ]; then
find $1 -name '*' -exec chown me:me {} \; \
-type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; \
-type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
else
echo "$1 is not a directory."
fi
exit 0
edited: thanks procyon
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-29 21:40:51) -
I've Googled around for couple of days now since I switched from Banshee to the lighter mpd+sonata combo. The problem is that create-db just doesn't like some of my songs and hangs, and I don't know why. Please help! I can't be using Banshee forever
update: 5th Rainism(2008).zip is not a directory or music
added music/Ai Otsuka - Rocket Sneaker - One_Time/01 Rocket Sneaker.mp3Procyon wrote:Corrupted songs? Try to open them in easytag.
Thanks for the advice. Did that and found the offenders and was able to update. However, the songs I removed I could still listen to other players. Do you know what might be wrong with them?
qball wrote:
Please try the latest 0.14.0-beta3 (we hope to release 0.14.0 today).
If it still persists please join #mpd on irc.freenode.net.
mpd does not (yet, it is WIP) support music inside archives.
I installed mpd-git dated 20081215 from aur, but should I upgrade? -
[SOLVED] mpd refuses to play songs with unicode in the filenames
Hi,
I've been using MPD+Sonata for a while now (two great pieces of software), unfortunately I just tried to play some songs stored in files with unicode characters (i think they're unicode, the ones with the accents, like 'è') and they refuse to play.
I modified my mpd.conf file to set filesystem_charset to both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 (restarting mpd and rebuilding the DB each time) and then it simply refused to add the songs to the database. Furthermore, when I uncommented the line again, MPD still won't add them to the database.
Any ideas what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:01:14)ah... ok! it seems that the problem is deeper than that. I have my music stored on an NTFS drive and it would appear that these files have disappeared, as far as linux is concerned. I'll move the thread to something more appropriate
And that was fixed by a remount. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! :-/
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:00:59) -
[SOLVED]Serious frustrations with MPD-Pulse and ncmpcpp
There are a couple of problems I'm having. First and foremost, I can't access any sort of flash video without mpd stopping and not working until a full system reboot, I've tried "sudo mpd --kill && sudo mpd --no-create-db" as well as "sudo /etc/rc.d/mpd restart" and they don't work. I've noticed several people with this problem while using alsa, I've tried normal mpd and tried some of the suggestions that I found for mpd.conf but to no avail and got the added bonus of play on startup which annoys me (mpd-pulse for whatever reason doesn't do that) so I was wondering if there exist any sort of work around for mpd-pulse or pulse in general (I'll take whatever).
Moving onto the more minor problem with ncmpcpp, there was an update today and upon installing I've noticed a serious decrease in speed, particularly when scrolling through the library and stumbling upon a certain artist that has a lot of albums/songs, but also when first playing a song after a system boot ncmpcpp will wait ~6 seconds before playing any sound (while the progress bar for the song is moving forward). The first issue is more important as I have several discographies and going from one end of my library to another is rather difficult at present, but the latter is still really annoying.
I'm mainly trying to see if any one has a suggestion for my mpd-pulse issues with flash, and I'm curious if the ncmpcpp things are something everyone is experiencing or if it's just me.
Thank you in advance,
--Wes
Last edited by Wesman26 (2010-06-19 03:52:55)About flash:
If I'm correct in saying that all audio is out after using flash in a browser, and nothing works until the browser is closed, then the problem is indeed OSS. Here's what you do: before starting any audio applications, (as root)
# rmmod snd-pcm-oss
# rmmod snd-mixer-oss
# rmmod snd-seq-oss
Add these into your /etc/rc.conf module list, with a ! before them (this blacklists them):
MODULES=( <...other modules...> !snd_pcm_oss !snd_seq_oss)
I found this thread because of ncmpcpp is gone really slow for me too. Gonna have to try this unix socket stuff. I don't really understand it if I'm honest B-) -
[SOLVED] Rhythmbox won't play FLAC, wma and m4a files
The errors it gives:
For m4a:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
For FLAC:
The MIME type of this file could not be identified
For wma:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: Windows Media Audio 8 decoder
My gstreamer packages installed:
$yaourt -Qs gstreamer
==> Query installed packages
extra/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.19-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework
extra/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.23-1
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.23-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
extra/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.18-1
Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugins
extra/totem 2.30.2-1 (gnome-extra)
A GNOME2 integrated movie player based on Gstreamer.
Thanks, kradle
UPDATE:
After installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg wma files and FLAC files seem to play fine (but I think the FLAC files I tried to play before were just damaged and that this is irrelevant)
Only m4a does not work now
UPDATE:
m4a after installing gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins.
At first I did not manage to do this because I had ffmpeg-svn installed, so I installed ffmpeg and removed ffmpeg-svn, installed libvpx and removed libvpx-git and not it works perfectly.
Last edited by kradle (2010-07-22 03:29:27)Obi-Lan wrote:Are you in audio group?
yup. I ran
gpasswd -a karam audio
before running rhythmbox. Actually this seems to be a gstreamer issue as my audio works in most software but i have no playback in rhythmbox or quod libet. well i am going to switch to mpd/sonata and see if i can get that to work. i was never a big fan of rhythmbox anyway as it has no id3 tag editing support.
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