On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:56:26AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > For instance, on kde, you seem to have a choice of aRts or nothing, > which messes up Konqueror because Rp and xmms use esd, and I have not > tested flash, but xscavenger causes problems because it uses some other > drivers or server, but I can find no information or configuration on > telling it which one to use. I was under the impression that GNOME2 would be switching over to ArtsD for this exact reason (and it's apparent technically superiority). It'll be a while before Debian Stable has GNOME2 though;) > I never thought sound would be such a challenge, and thanks for the help > it is nice to have things working in one area again.:) It really depends on your hardware. I have a SBLive, which uses the emu10k1 driver. My entire sound setup procedure is to run modconf and select this driver. That's it. It supports hardware mixing of multiple audio streams, so I don't need to use ArtsD/ESD/etc to let multiple programs work at the same time. There are ways around it though. The artsdsp program executes whatever program you tell it to, and redirects it's sound output through arts. The esddsp script does the same thing for ESD. For an impressively hacky solution, run 'esddsp artsd' to start arts and try to reroute it (and all other KDE apps) sound output through ESD. No idea if it'll work, but it might be worth a try. -rob
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