aRts Problems with KDE 3.2.0

[James Stark <starkj@uoguelph.ca>]

Hi All,

I'm running the experimental KDE 3.2.0 packages on sid.  I'm seeing two 
problems with aRts (I'm assuming that they are related).

1.  With all settings for aRts at there defaults, I get CPU overload errors 
when aRts tries to load (this usually followed by a segfault on knotify).  If 
I change the hardware setting from auto detect to ALSA, they most of this 
disappears.

2.  While playing back an mp3, through either noatun or juk, aRts consumes 30% 
of the CPU.  With ogg vorbis files it uses 50% of the cpu.  For comparison 
mpg123 uses 4% cpu and ogg123 uses 7% cpu while playing back the same files.

I'm running kernel 2.4.24 using ALSA 1.0 on a PII 400.  I also saw the CPU 
overload problem on an Athlon XP 2000+ (same kernel/ALSA versions).

Has anyone else seen or dealt with these or similar problems?

Thanks,

James