artsdsp - was Re: Playing Audio CDs

[Jeff Mings]

Rodney,

I run KDE and need to start xmms with the command
artsdsp xmms
so that the sound daemon (running as artsd) allows it to send output to 
audio.

Might want to check if it's set up that way on your machine.

-Jeff



Deven Phillips wrote:

>Rodney,
>
>	This could make perfect sense if you are using KDE. KDE uses a sound
>server (aRtsd) which ties up the dsp device. Normally, if you run XMMS,
>KDE starts it inside of a program called 'soundwrapper'. If you have
>upgraded parts of KDE, the kernel, or XMMS; you may have inadvertantly
>broken or removed soundwrapper from being run, or the sound server from
>being run. If this is the case, then sound for XMMS could be broken. The
>acid test is to log out of KDE and into
>GNOME/WindowMaker/Enlightenment/etc.. and try it there.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Deven Phillips, CISSP
>Network Architect
>Viata Online, Inc.
>