Re: Sound in Deb Sarge KDE 3.3.2
ok I checked lsmod and seems that from your description I'm running alsa:
snd_cs4281 23012 0
snd_rawmidi 25316 1 snd_cs4281
snd_ac97_codec 69508 1 snd_cs4281
snd_pcm 97480 1 snd_cs4281
snd_page_alloc 11720 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 10880 1 snd_cs4281
snd_seq_device 8264 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_opl3_lib
snd_timer 25540 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9476 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd 57380 8
snd_cs4281,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
cs4281 53312 2
soundcore 10400 4 snd,cs4281
Guess I will play aroudn with out arts for kde and see what happens
Thanks.
On Friday March 18 2005 12:47 pm, Justin Guerin wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 19:05, Bill Day wrote:
> > I have working sound, but for some odd reason I have to disable aRTs to
> > be able to play quake3, once arts is disabled I loose sound in KDE..
> > What kind of work around would you susggest for this?
> >
> > TIA,
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> You have 2 choices. Either tell quake3 to use arts, or tell KDE not to.
> In the KDE control center, you can specify an external player. Keep in
> mind that unless your sound card is capable of playing multiple channels at
> the same time, you may run into some conflicts. They will result in
> certain things not giving you sound, but they're otherwise harmless. I
> would guess this is the case, since quake3 doesn't give sound when you've
> got arts running. Arts, in case you don't know, is a sound daemon, and it
> software mixes all attempts to reach the sound card, then sends the
> resulting feed to the sound card for playback. That way, even if your card
> doesn't support multiple sound sources, it can still sound like it does.
> The down side is, it locks the sound card, and any attempts to reach it
> will fail, which is likely why quake3 has no sound when it's running.
>
> If you want to know which sound drivers you're using, use the lsmod
> command. If the output includes modules beginning with snd_, then you've
> got alsa. If not, you've got OSS. If you've got alsa running, you may be
> able to simulate hardware mixing with the dmix plugin. You'll have to
> google for it, as I'm afraid I've not done it and don't have any pointers.
>
> Justin Guerin
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