On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:49, Ming-Che Lee wrote: > Hello, > > Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2005 21:27 schrieb Abhay Kedia: > > Also, I like to use JuK as my audio player and use Skype > > extensively. Will disabling arts trouble me? Is it a must to run > > a sound server? Here I would like to mention that I am using an > > Skype requires artsd in order to work properly. I think I read it > somewhere in the installation requirements of Skype. Prior to Skype > I didn't have artsd enabled in KDE and there were no troubles. > > Regards, > > Ming-Che Lee > > -- > Registered Linux User #241507 at http://counter.li.org > > GPG KEYID: 0x5EBF1692 > Fingerprint: DB76 8D6F 9B7D B123 0FE2 0F18 389C A8BD 5EBF 1692
Skype does not require artsd, it uses OSS. This unfortunately means that you have to stop all software, that is currently accessing the audio device in order to use it (ALSA cannot do sw mixing, because it is done in userspace and the drivers, including the oss emulation layer, run in kernel space). This is why gentoo's ebuild for skype includes a wrapper script that checks for the presence of artsd or esd and uses artsdsp or esddsp to start skype, so that software mixing is not lost (if neither is present skype is started normally). I tried using alsa's wrapper (aoss), but I did not have any success. So if you dislike artsd, you can use esd, but I could not get skype to work with it, meaning that it started normally, but after calling somebody, I could not hear them and they could not hear me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
