Re: [sweep-users] sweep 0.9.2-0ubuntu1 crashing under eeeXubuntu

[Erik de C. L. <ml...@me...>]

k9d wrote:

> Sweep is then displaying the wave form and I can play with the menu
> options. However, if I try and hightlight the wave form and play the
> sound, sweep will instantly crash and disappear.

Ok, thats definitely a bug. It shouldn't just crash and disappear.

Does it do the same thing if you don't highlight a section of the file
and just press play?

> If I hit Playback -> Play sample I get a dialog "Error opening ALSA
> device plughw:0,0 Device or resource busy"

This is almost certain due to something like ESD or PulseAudio grabbing
the audio device stopping Sweep from accessing it.

> Does anyone know how to trouble shoot this?

Try to find 'esd' or 'pulseaudio' among the running processes and kill
it/them. If Sweep then works as its supposed to then that is (an 
admittedly poor) solution. A better solution might be to enable esd/
pulseaudio and then try to get Sweep to use the dmix output instead
of plughw.

HTH,
Erik
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