On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:41, John Andersen wrote:
And just for the record, I very much disagree with the other post that said artsd is to be avoided. Without it you get simplex sound, with it you get multiplexed sound which allows you to listen to music and still here other sound effects or what-ever. Artsd is quit cool.
I believe I mentioned that this is what arts do. Sorry, my answer wasn't very clear. Arts work nice when it does, but almost always ads a sligt delay to the sound. Which doesn't perticularly hurt if you use sound only. But if you want system sounds enabled, and want to be able to watch movies without being interrupted when a system sound occurs (sometimes you would get a message popping up saying that arts can't use /dev/dsp or something similar), you have to play the movie through arts as well, and there a slight sound delay really bothers. I've posted about this a long time ago, and could never get the problem solved satisfactory. The best I could find was to decrease the response time, (i.e. increase CPU usage) which helped, but didn't solve it completely. Mind you, having given it some thought, I seem to think that this is a problem that came with KDE. I never had the sound lagging problem in KDE 2.x (regardless of distro). As I said in my previous reply, this is what I really like about the SoundBlaster Live! - having the sound mixed in the hardware. This is especially helpful if you have to use a sound app that can only use esd or oss. Hans