On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 13:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 05:11, rikona wrote: > > > Also, after trying [and closing] rosegarden, I can't get xmms to > > > play anything either. It is complaining about something blocking > > > the soundcard. What might that be? I killed jackd, started by > > > rosegarden, and left running when rosegarden closed. How can I > > > get xmms functioning again? > > > > I'll bet on it being aRts. Try stopping it and re-starting it. > > > > Anne > > Anne, is it still advised, under KDE, to also set the "auto suspend" > to 1 second instead of the default 60 seconds? I know I've always set > that here so other apps didn't have to wait to grab sound resources. > Or am I slightly confused and thinking of something else? :-)
No, you're correct. I always have mine at 1 second. Before I knew that I often had the sort of problem rikona talked about. At that time I controlled it by running kickarts, which allows stopping and starting from a tray icon. I haven't needed that for quite a while - since 2005LE, I think. Anne
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