Hello Alex,thank you for the tip.I will have to check that out. Cya, Derek On 10/22/05, Alex Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
