On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center? > > > You should have aRts start at bootup, running soundserver with > > > realtime priority, but reduct the value in 'autosuspend if idle' > > > to 1 sec. I did find that some things worked better for this - > > > presumably forcing it to let go when otherwise it would hang on. > > > > > > Of course it may be a red herring, but anything's worth a try at > > > this stage. > > > > > > Anne > > > -- > > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > > HI again > > > > Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little > > busy. > > > > When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control > > center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this > > error message when trying to apply the new settings. > > > > Something like this: > > > > "Error while initializing sound driver. > > > > device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or > > directory) > > > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device" > > > > I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off > > chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still > > play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive > > atm..I'll play with that one later. > > I did some investigating through the aRTs control....I have no > > default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs > > installed at all. > > > That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related > apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I > believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled? > > Anne
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