I've installed KDE 2.1 and have not been able to make aRts work
reliably. It starts and runs long enough to play the KDE opening theme,
but the sound is very choppy (plays ~1/4 second of sound, pauses ~1/4
sec, plays another 1/4 second). After this, the artsd server dies. Once,
after starting it at a console and playing a short while, it produced an
error message:
[allen@guanaco soundserver]$ /usr/local/bin/artswrapper
>> running as realtime process now (priority 50)
artsd: audiosubsys.cc:458: void Arts::AudioSubSystem::handleIO(int):
Assertion `len == can_write' failed.
Aborted
I tried checking out the latest snapshot and the results are similar to
the prepackaged KDE 2.1 RPMs.
It's probably the fault of my lame sound card, an Aureal 8820-based
card, which has a half open-source, half binary driver. However, most
sound apps seem to work OK with it otherwise.
Other system details:
400MHz P-II
440BX MoBo
RedHat 6.2 with XFree86 4.0.2 and kernel 2.4.2 (and many other upgrades)
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Allen
