I am stumped. I haven't seen the sound lagging that badly. Is your card a multi-channelled card? If it is there is no reason for you to use aRtsd. The only reason why I am using it for my SB Live! is to resample to 48kHz, since the routine on that card is known to be subpar.
Charles
Uhm, the reason why I'd like to use artsd is because multiple apps can use the soundcard at once. Is that what you mean by multi-channelled? Then my card is not. Some sound apps take forever to release the sound driver, don't ask me why, but's it's very annoying. Then I have to wait a couple of seconds, sometimes up to 30, before I can get a movie playing with sound. This is rediculous, I know. I don't know if the kde 3.x version of arts maybe has an issue with my card. At first I thought that my card must be at the end of its life (unlikely), because the motherboards onboard sound don't seem to have the same problem. Not as badly, anyway. But the onboard sound is crappy compared to the Soundblaster, and it doesn't offer enough audio inputs for my purposes. I think I'll compile arts from source and see if it helps. Thanks Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile