artsdsp - was Re: Playing Audio CDs

[Rodney Kanno]

Jeff,

Hey that worked! Thanks....I wonder what changed on my system? A couple of 
weeks ago everything was working just fine. 

Thanks,
Rodney

On Saturday 18 August 2001 08:49 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>
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