On Sunday 22 February 2009 16:22, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 16:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay > > to play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. > > > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav > > > > I had to disable pulseaudio, by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, > > otherwise the tune wouldn't play, but perhaps further aplay options are > > needed to get the tune to play with pulseaudio enabled. > > > > The question is though. When the tune is playing the bootup sequence > > stops, until the tune has finished playing, then procedes. > > > > Is there a way for the tune, which is fired off from rc.local, to play > > without interrupting the boot process? > > > > Thanks in advance for any incantations that may resolve the problem. > > ---- > add an & to the end of the line so it forks its own process and allows > rc.local to complete... > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav & > > and I would think that the problem you had with pulseaudio playing this > music is that rc.local is executed as root but root wouldn't have > pulseaudio running unless root had already logged in. > > Craig Hi Craig. Thanks to you and Andras for the suggestion to add the & to the end of the line, which has done the job. Now the tune plays, and the bootup continues to GDM loginscreen, and post login, when logged into KDE, or Gnome. When the tune finishes, there are no problems with running sound apps in user space. Bear in mind, that is with pulseaudio disabled, by my having removed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, which also removes kde-settings-pulseaudio. Going back to the problem, where aplay would not play the tune on bootup, when pulseaudio was enabled, I played around with aplay options in /etc/rc.local to see if the tune would play with pulseaudio enabled. Originally, it had been as below with pulseaudio enabled, and the tune would not play. aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav Now I change the line above in /etc/rc.local, to the one below, and now the tune plays with pulseaudio enabled. aplay -D hw:0 /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav The problem now, is that the tune is playing when I login to either Gnome, or KDE, and continues to completion when logged in, but after the tune finishes, I have no sounds in either Gnome or KDE, depending on which desktop I'd logged into. If for example I'd logged into KDE, I have no sounds. If I logout, and back in to Gnome, the sounds come back. If I then logout of Gnome, and back in to KDE, I also have sounds again. This has to be some pulseaudio related problem, as when pulseaudio is disabled, playing the tune above, which is started from /etc/rc.local, and continues post login until completion, there are no problems with playing sound apps on either KDE, or Gnome. Perhaps I'll ask on the alsa developers list, as Lennart (author of pulseaudio) hangs out there. Maybe he will have an answer. Thanks guys for your replies though. At least one problem is resolved. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
