On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:02:12 +0200, you wrote:
On Sunday 22 May 2005 20:41, John Bailo wrote:
Someone told me that Arts is the cause of a lot of sound problems in Suse.
Someone told you a half truth.
What is it?
It is the KDE sound daemon. It is responsible for managing sound streams and multiplexing them together. The problem some people have with it is that it tends to hog the sound device. If you have a really old or cheap card that can't handle multiple threads, it will tend to block non-arts aware programs from producing sound. This is the only problem I'm aware of, and if you have a reasonably new card it shouldn't be a problem at all
Can it be disabled and yet have the OS produce sound?
The OS doesn't produce sounds. KDE will not be able to produce sounds anymore, but other programs will still work. But this is an extremely unlikely source of your sound problems
I tend to disagree with Anders (on this), but it's a complex question and at least part of the issue is what versions of arts and KDE you're using, as well as your sound card & driver. In SuSE 9.2 I had tons of erratic sound problems with several different sound cards. Sometimes stopping and/or restarting artsd helped, sometimes it didn't - I suspect I was having several different kinds of problems, but after beating it up for a while I just gave up on audio in linux, so I can't really tell you exactly what the problems were. With 9.3, the sound is rock solid on the same hardware, so YMMV. If your audio is iffy, try stopping and/or restarting artsd and see what happens. You won't break anything and it might help. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.