On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote:
> Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just
> never had removed the arts USE flag.  The sounds works but it is slow to
> respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all.  This is mostly
> while switching desktops or something that I do pretty quick.  Any ideas
> on that?
>
> I think some of it may be that arts is still running.  I did this to
>
> find that out:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ps aux | grep arts
> > dale     31062  0.3  0.5  10784  6176 ?        S    21:39   0:00
> > /usr/kde/3.5/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 1 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l
> > 3 -f
> > root     31093  0.0  0.0   1656   472 pts/0    R+   21:40   0:00 grep
> > --colour=auto arts
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #

Go to:
-> KDE Controlcenter
-> Sound & Multimedia
-> Sound-System
Uncheck the box "[x] Enable the sound system"

If artsd is still running, kill the process.

> I think it uses noatun to play the sounds.  I got it to work with what I
> currently have by telling it to use mplayer to play the sounds.  I would
> like to go back to the old way but without arts if someone can tell me
> how to get around this little boo boo.
>

I wouldn't use noatun. It's outdated, crappy, ugly and uses aRts ;-)
There are many other good players like Amarok. It uses xine or Helix as 
backend which is able using dmix devices.

Regards, Elias P.
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