pysol sound problem

[Yorvik]

Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "Yorvik" == Yorvik  <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>     Yorvik> Daniel T. Chen wrote:
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>     >> Laura Conrad wrote:
>     >>> The other one is also pysol.  And none of this changes between
>     >>> when the problem isn't happening (right after I've started
>     >>> pysol) and when it is.  Yesterday, pysol ran for several hours
>     >>> without exhibiting the problem, but this morning when I woke
>     >>> up, it was back.
>     >> Is pysol the only application exhibiting these symptoms?
>     >> Thanks,
> 
>     Yorvik> I some how missed this thread.  I wasn't aware Pysol made
>     Yorvik> noises, on my machine it is totally silent.
> 
> You have to install pysol-sound-server and go into options and enable
> sound.  I always set the "music" volume to 0.
> 
> Looking into this, so I could write the previous sentence, it occurred
> to me to wonder whether it's pysol that's being the un-nice
> application that doesn't share the alsa devices correctly.  It's both
> playing the music (although I'm not listening) and making the card
> dealing noises, and maybe the music is insisting on "finishing" the
> song before dealing the cards?  Although, as I said, it works as
> expected when you first start it; it's after it's been running
> overnight that the card noises are out of sync with the cards.
> 
I've been running(playing) Lysol on a machine here that has Mandriva on 
and even after only an hour the shuffling noises are starting to drift 
out of sync.  I've just installed the pysol-sound-server on this ubuntu 
machine and will see if it does the same.

SteVe