Re: Sound/aRTS/OSS
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 06:00 pm, Charles Logan wrote:
> This isn't really a problem, more of a puzzlement/inconvienince. I've been
> using OSS for sound for a year or so with no problems with it, KDE
> included. Recently, after installing Wine and few Windoze apps that need
> sound, I had to disable the aRTS server in KDE to get Wine, it's drivers
> and OSS to play nice with KDE. Sound does still work in both Wine/windoze
> apps and KDE with the exception of KDE system sounds. No fanfare on
> startup, etc. But, once KDE is up and running if I play a wav file, any
> wav will do, the KDE system sounds start working as always, giving me
> perfect results sound-wise in all arenas. Using Wine and a windoze app to
> play a wav won't do it, it has to be a Linux sound app, but once done all
> is well. I'm just curious as to why the system sounds don't become
> available (audible?) until it's kick started in that way.
>
> Cheers!
This isn't backed by looking at the code, but I'm pretty positive I'm right
:-) The "system sounds" aren't played if artsd isn't running, as, if you
turn off artsd, KDEs not going to be rude enough to turn it back on just for
clicks and beeps :-) OTOH, noatun and kaboodle are specificly sound-playing
apps, and they both will start artsd for you if it isn't already running,
because (obviously) if you've started either of them, you want to listen to
your audio/video/whatever. At that point, if you stop playing music in
noatun, or movies in kaboodle, artsd will detect it's not being used and
unlatch itself from /dev/dsp but stay running, letting wine apps have free
reign if they want it, and coming back whenever some app that uses artsd
wants to play a sound; thus, your system sounds will work.
If you don't want to have to kickstart artsd like this, have it startup when
you log in, and set the "timeout" value in kcontrol->Sound->Sound Server to
something very low (mine is 3 seconds). Wine et. al. should still work and
your system sounds will work from the get-go.
OTOH, I hate system sounds and I turn them all off B-)
- --
A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in.
--Kim Alm, a.s.r
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