RE: [LUG] Problems, problems (and more problems)...

[Rich Smith <Richard.J.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah in my experience Artsd grabs the entire soundcard which if the app 
dosen't like to use artsd causes problems, but if artsd is idle for 60 seconds 
then it (supposidly) releases the soundcard for other apps but I have found 
this rarely to be the case. Artsd also has the ability to be suspended:
# artsshell suspend
But this will ONLY work if no other application are using it, in my experience 
it is difficult to get this to work, hence the kill method described in the 
previous post. There is also a prog that redirects sound to the artsd, so you 
don't have to kill it:
(if you would normally do)
# mpg123 track.mp3
(do this instead)
# artsdsp mpg123 track.mp3

Again my success with this is variable, but give it a go and see if it works 
for you.  Other programs that I have found to not get along well with artsd 
are games such as Q3A, Wolfenstein etc but if you kill artsd then all is well.

Cheers
     Rich


> ===== Original Message From Nicholas John Murison <N.J.Murison@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
=====
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 02:09, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 August 2002 08:42, you wrote:
> > > I've found when I want to run xine I have to kill the artsd, then
> >
> > What is arts the daemon of?
>
> http://www.arts-project.org/doc/handbook/introduction.html#what-is-arts
>
> It's basically the KDE equivalent to ESD under GNOME.  It handles sounds
> events which are native to KDE, and is possibly laying claim to the
> sound card (/dev/dsp usually), blocking other software from accessing
> it.  Xine doesn't go through artsd to contact the sound card, and thus
> would possibly throw a wobble.  Hence why Jonathan was having problems.
>
> That's my theory, anyway.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Nicholas John Murison
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don't mess with penguins
> http://www.urgusabic.net

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Rich Smith
School of Chemistry
University of Exeter


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