Re: aRts crashes playing streams
Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 19:12 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen:
> tirsdag 16 maj 2006 15:54 skrev Derek Broughton:
> > Anders E. Andersen wrote:
> > > Derek Broughton skrev:
> > >> All I know is that if I enable ALSA in KDE directly (integrated I810
> > >> sound),
> > >
> > > Please explain how you accomplish this? As far as I know the only sound
> > > engine in KDE is arts, and you can't change it.
> >
> > Sorry, you're right arts _is_ the ALSA selection - but any _other_
> > options I try end up with something getting exclusive access to the sound
> > card. Which leaves your assertion, that arts is awful and ALSA works,
> > incomprehensible to me.
>
> Hm.. Well.. Maybe the I810 sound driver or the hardware has problems with
> mixing. I have used a couple of different SiS build in sound cards and a
> Via build in card.
Via has vor DXS channels for hardware mixing that you also see in kmix (the
5th playing source has to wait). The i810 has only one hardware channel.
Simply set up alsa dmix and you are set (at least for alsa-capable
applications).
HS
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