Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

[Alex Fernandez <alejandrofer@gmail.com>]

> Well I got it to work finally :D.I had to install alsa-base,I also had
> to change to 8bits sound,and I have to do a killall artsd before I
> start some applications,but it seems to work great now.Time to go play
> some quake 3.

Hi Derek,

If you are not going to use it, you should disable artsd in the
configuration of KDE (KDE Control Center -> Sound and Multimedia ->
Sound System -> General -> (not) Enable the sound system). Not only is
it a very cpu-consuming daemon, but many programs don't play nice with
it.

If you should want to have sound mixing on your system, use dmix:
  http://www.thepenguin.org.uk/alsa/
It is very CPU-efficient and works great.

Cheers,

Alex.