>
>Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> >
> > "Con Kolivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I've been running the VIA AC97 on board sound card successfully with
> > > the beta releases on KDE2 till now. Previously the sound would work
> > > with the alsa/oss emulation and the arts server off because the arts
> > > server would make the sound choppy. Now with a clean reinstall of RC1
> > > the sound now loads the generic via82cxx_audio, ac97_codec and
> > > soundcore modules which work with 2.2.17-21. These work fine with all
> > > other window managers (gnome's esd, direct sound control with X apps
> > > etc.) but under information - sound in kcontrol it is not seen any
> > > more (no information available about sound card), and the arts sound
> > > server if enabled will run but then prevent any sound from working at
> > > all. The correct modules appear to be loaded but KDE2 seems to not
> > > like them. Any suggestions? or fixes?
> >
> > jeff ?
>
>WRT to ARTS daemon, I have this problem with other sound cards in the
>release, not just via audio. I believe someone in Paris told me that if
>you wait XX seconds (30? 60?) of inactivity, the ARTS daemon will
>release /dev/dsp so that other apps can grab it.
>
>About the sound information, 2.4.x kernels don't have /proc/sound
>anymore, thus via_audio definitely doesn't provide it. Maybe kcontrol
>is using this to get its info?
>
> Jeff
Yes the sound does return to other programs after a delay. Previously the
same kernel was running (2.2.17-21) and my sound installation was alsa.
Kcontrol showed the right card saying alsa/oss emulation previously - but
would say no synthesiser found. At least sound worked with KDE2 then (using
events notification for example) even though the arts daemon just made the
sound choppy so I turned it off. Perhaps sticking with alsa for this card
would have been better since the default installation is kde2? Unless there
is something else I'm missing. It was a non-expert "full" install with a
clean partition performed to see how it would go.
Con.
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