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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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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=
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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=
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module, tell aRts to exit after a certain amount of idle time (0 seconds is=
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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,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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