From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 8:17:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D075637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mandarin.fruitsalad.org (pc117.net160.koping.net [81.16.160.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9615843E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauri@kde.org) Received: from [192.168.15.151] (helo=192.168.15.151) by mandarin.fruitsalad.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wlFK-000JmK-00; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:17:06 +0200 From: Lauri Watts To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE, sound, artsd and xmms Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:00:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.7 References: <3D9ADF91.6050803@sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <3D9ADF91.6050803@sanbi.ac.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210021600.52796.lauri@kde.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =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