Hi, Stefan
I applied this patch and it seems to have fixed the choppiness. However,
artsd still exits with the Assertion given below after working for some
short period of time (<10 s). What is artsd trying to do when this
Assersion fails?
Thanks,
Allen
Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>
> 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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