On Sunday 02 January 2005 18:54, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote: > How do I shut arts off? From KDE panel/ control center --> sound and multimedia --> sound system The lead (general) pane has a check box "Enable the sound system"--Uncheck it. If you want to use the "sound system", there is an option below to autosuspend after a period of time, freeing the resource for Blender, etc.