gramofile records nothing

Martin Fahrendorf martin at fahrendorf.de
Fri Aug 22 19:47:08 BST 2003


Am Freitag, 22. August 2003 06:34 schrieb Tom Kuiper:
> > From: Martin Fahrendorf <martin at fahrendorf.de>
> > To: kde at mail.kde.org
> > Subject: Re: [kde] gramofile records nothing
> > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:09:36 +0200
>
> ...
>
> > If you want to use krecord and the and you are tired of the
> > dropouts,=20 please look after a little programm called
> > artswrapper. if you set=20 this prorgram to siud root all the
> > dropouts are gone. The reason is=20 the realtime priority which
> > currently only root can activate. And=20 this has noting to do
> > with the host performance. On my 400 MHz K6-3=20 system all the
> > recording works great.
>
> Dear Martin,
>
> On my system:
>
> nutmeg:/home/kuiper# ls -l /usr/bin/artswrapper
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root         4000 Mar  1  2002
> /usr/bin/artswrapper nutmeg:/home/kuiper# /usr/bin/artswrapper -h
>
> >> running as realtime process now (priority 50)
>
> usage: /usr/bin/artsd [ options ]
> ...
> nutmeg:/home/kuiper# ps ax | grep artsd
>   542 ?        S      0:02 /usr/bin/artsd -F 9 -S 4096 -s 60 -m
> artsmessage -l 3 -f
>
> So, I have what you describe, I think.  However, I just tried
> krecord again, from the command line this time instead of the menu.
>  Still the same. 

hm, what does 'artsshell status' say? And how is your HD configured 
(DMA etc, look with hdparm).

> I tried running krecord as root but it is no
> better.  I notice that while artswrapper is SUID root, artsd is
> not.  Could this be the problem? nutmeg:/home/kuiper# ls -l
> /usr/bin/artsd
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       117596 Mar  1  2002
> /usr/bin/artsd

That is pritty normal.

>
> Besides the sound "skipping" I notice that the seconds (?) counter
> moves faster than real-time during playback.  It seems to move
> irregularly during recording, sometimes taking 3-4 seconds to
> update one unit.
>
> Could it be necessary that I need to fine-tune the -F and -S
> options?  I tried some of that with the Control Panel, without
> success.
>
> There was also one diagnostic output from krecord:
> Double QObject deletion detected.
> Does it mean anything?

I don't think so. This is a delete on a QObject after a delete (I 
think).
>
> Best regards
>
> Tom

Martin
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