Zitat von Guenter Lichtenberg
What I meant with 'strangely' was that I have to put in 'artsplay' as the *external* player if I want to hear any sound notifications, even if no other application uses the soundcard.
Hi Guenter! artsd _is_ an application which uses the soundcard. If artsd is running, it opens the soundcard and blocks it for other applications. Even if no arts _client_ it playing sound. It just runs in the background and keeps the soundcard open. That's why you have to use artsplay, because it does not use the soundcard directly but uses the artsd which plays the sound over it's own connection to the card. If you use KDE on RedHat, then you have the very same problem. There are only two possible reasons why it behaves other way: 1. You have an EMU10K1 based soundcard there (Soundblaster 512, Live!, Audigy) 2. The artsd sound daemon is configured that way, that it releases the sound card after some (perhaps some very few) seconds. You can do that under SuSE, too in KDE control center. Now clear? ;) Daniel