Hi!
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Allen Barnett wrote:
> 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.
This is a well-known problem, and the fault of the Aureal driver code. Luckily,
there is a patch available against the driver source at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
in the patches section.
Cu... Stefan
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