Amarok and 64 bit

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#1

I’m running SuSE 11.0 on a 64-bit dual core AMD processor. Amarok has always been very flakey on this architecture and now with this upgrade to SuSE 11.0 its unplayable. When I select either a music file or a URL for internet radio it never comes back. It becomes a dead process and I have to terminate it. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this behaviour. While running it under 10.3 it would run but it would eventually crash (while idle as a docked process) and I would see the email dump to be sent. I always sent it.

Cheers!!

#2

bloggins,

Not sure if it’s any different as I’m not running 64bit myself.
But have you given the builds from the Packman repository a try?

http://packman.links2linux.org/package/amarok

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Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB

#3

Thanks for the idea but no cigar. I installed from the link that you gave me and the problem remains.

Cheers!!

#4

bloggins wrote:

>
> I’m running SuSE 11.0 on a 64-bit dual core AMD processor. Amarok has
> always been very flakey on this architecture and now with this upgrade
> to SuSE 11.0 its unplayable. When I select either a music file or a URL
> for internet radio it never comes back. It becomes a dead process and I
> have to terminate it. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this
> behaviour. While running it under 10.3 it would run but it would
> eventually crash (while idle as a docked process) and I would see the
> email dump to be sent. I always sent it.
>
> Cheers!!
>
>
I’m have a problem with Amarok also but I run openSUSE 11.0, KDE 3.5.9 and
latest packman versions of sound systems. I get the player but NO sound. If
I use Mplayer, Kaffine etc I get sound fine, also the KDE sounds all appear
to work. You can see the player is playing the radio stream or CD but no
sound.

Russ
Linux register user 441463

#5

a) What

rpm -qa “amarok”
returns?
b) Settings->Configure Amarok->Engine. The use of “xine Engine” with Output plugin set to “alsa” probably will give you the best results.
But use libxine from Packman:

$ rpm -q libxine1
libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3

#6

bloggins wrote:

>
> Thanks for the idea but no cigar. I installed from the link that you
> gave me and the problem remains.
>
> Cheers!!
>
>
did you run it from a konsole window? what errors if any are given?
fyi - I run under 64bit 10.3 and 11.0 no problem

Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Gnome 2.20, Opera 9.x weekly

#7

I’m using Amarok 1.4.9.1 on openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) and KDE 4.0.4 (KDE 4.0.4 >= 20080505) “release 15.1”

Although the about of Amarok is talking about KDE 3.5.9 release 49.1 for some reason.

I’m listening to a large collection on a regular basis and have no issues with the sound.

#8

RedDwarf wrote:

>
> a) What > rpm -qa “amarok” returns?
amarok-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1

> b) Settings->Configure Amarok->Engine. The use of “xine Engine” with
> Output plugin set to “alsa” probably will give you the best results.
> But use libxine from Packman:
1.1.13-0.pm.3-i686 from packman_-_mirror

Have xine and alsa selected for the Engine. speakers are set as default
ALSA
Not sure which speaker setting to use. Sound under YaST hardware says
SBLive!
>> $ rpm -q libxine1
>> libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3

Not sure what else is configured wrong.

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Russ
Linux register user 441463

#9

Well I took the advice of started amarok in a console. No errors or anything meaningful to me BUT, (a big but) I was finally able to run the setup menu selection and successfully choose the xine engine. Before I would select it and then amarok would go visit La-La Land forever and I would have to “kill -9” it. Right now this does seem to be working. Thanks to everyone with their advice and helpful ideas.

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