/usr/kde/3/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

Hey all, my sisters computer has been having problems playing music, it will say the device is busy or what not. she has a C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 and I used the kernel OSS drivers. I tried setting them up as modules and compling them directly into the kernel and I get the same problem.

Today I was looking at the processes that were running and I saw this:

//usr/kde/3/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

I believe this is the root of all my evil, Is there a way to disable this? WIll it hurt the box if I disable it? thanks!

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

aRTs is the default sound daemon for KDE. It blocks the sound device. If a non-aRTs-enabled program tries to play a sound it will fail. You can disable aRTs via the Control Center of KDE -> Sound/Sound Server. Disable "start aRTs soundserver on KDE startup" then do a "killall artsd" or restart KDE.

BTW, I would use ALSA rather than kernel sound modules!

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

well the #gentoo channel is telling me not to use ALSA for that card... is that true?

also I have a sblive in my other machine and they also said the oss kernel drivers are better than alsa.

bigkev3 · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 5

Alternatlively you can use:

artsdsp prog_you_want_to_run

which makes arts provide access to the soundcard for non-arts programs.

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

the problem with that program is the latency issue experianced when your sound buffer value is high.