Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:00:48 +0200 From: Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE, sound, artsd and xmms Message-ID: <200210021600.52796.lauri@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <3D9ADF91.6050803@sanbi.ac.za> References: <3D9ADF91.6050803@sanbi.ac.za>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 13.59, Irvine Short wrote: > Hey All > > How do you guys get all the above to play together? > > I'd like to keep artsd going. At the moment I can get xmms to play by > running artsdsp xmms. > > Is there a neater/better way? There's a plugin for xmms to talk directly > to artsd but by all accounts it's old and buggy and not in the ports > subsystem. > Any suggestions much appreciated. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.7RX, KDE 3,03, and XMMS 1.2.7 > > The sound card is an Ensoniq AudioPCI ESS1371 If you have it (and most modern sound cards can handle this) go into=20 KControl's Sound Server setting, and tell aRts to use a custom device. Poi= nt=20 it at /dev/dsp0.1, and let xmms (and any other sound utilities) have=20 /dev/dsp. Do check in /dev/ that the alternate devices are present.=20 If your sound card doesn't support this option, you can in the same KContro= l=20 module, tell aRts to exit after a certain amount of idle time (0 seconds is= =20 never, so set it to something low, like 5 seconds.) All aRts aware=20 applications are able to restart it if they want it. You'll notice a small= =20 delay when starting something like Noatun, as it restarts the server, but=20 nothing unreasonable. Regards, =2D --=20 Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9mvwT/gUyA7PWnacRAs4WAJ4uyPHEf4BB10Bl4ZcjduKyM8Wc/QCffzVX +qznD8P7NmcQuNe6XWILijk=3D =3Dw+gp =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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