kde-3.3 -arts ...is it worth it?

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jdgill0 · Post by **jdgill0** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:15 am

Caustiq wrote:The test I tried was as follows. To switch virtual desktops in KDE, I can scroll the desktop with the mouse wheel. This triggers an ogg to play for each virtual desktop change using KDE's builtin sound notifications. Usually, when I scrolled very fast I would hear very many sounds all at once, but this wasn't the case. It would only play one sound at a time, ignoring the others. I was watching my process list in real time too, and ogg123 would not be invoked twice.

So after my modification it fixed the problem. This is on KDE 3.4.

Thanks Caustiq for the additional information. I have added the "&"s to the script.

Flandry · Post by **Flandry** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:07 am

This is not working that way for me- the sounds are all queued up, and continue serially until finished. Is there something extra required to get dmix to work than installing alsa?

jdgill0 · Post by **jdgill0** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:39 pm

I myself have done nothing with dmix ... what was posted above is all that I have done to my system. What kind of sound card do you have? I have a Sound Blaster Live (not one of the newer ones though) .. perhaps I am being aided by hardware mixing?

Flandry · Post by **Flandry** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:25 pm

I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. It is driving me bonkers. When an album finishes, the backlog of system sounds can go on for a minute or more. I'd rather have it drop extra sounds than queue them!

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:42 pm

Instead of this script I just just the program 'play' which is from the sox package and it handles mp3, wav, and ogg no problem.

kde-3.3 -arts ...is it worth it?

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