On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: > > > Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS > > > plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control > > > center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on > > OSS > > > > or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. > > > > > > John Drouhard > > > > I think I'm OK now, it's certainly better. I have Start aRts soundserver > > on > > > KDE startup enabled. Should I take this out? How do I put it onto OSS > > or Autodetect? The Sound I/O is on Autodetect - is this the one you > > mean? > > > > Sorry to be so clueless > > > > Anne > > It's ok to have aRtsd running on boot. Yes, the Sound I/O is where you > would specify Autodetect or OSS. What I suggest, is that you try each of > them (Autodetect, OSS, and ALSA), and try XMMS with them. Which ever one > works the best, should be the one you use. As long as sound comes out of > the programs you want it to, and it sounds ok, then you should leave > everything alone. :-) Talk to you later! >
Thanks for trying to make things clearer. I'll experiment, as you say. It definitely seems to be an aRts problem, as once again this morning I had to do an aRts 'hang up' and re-login to get things working again, so I'll try the options other than Auto and see what happens. Anne
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