On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 00:17, Austin Acton wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:09, David Walser wrote: > > Doesn't having arts *enable* some nifty multimedia > > capabilities though? I thought that was the point. > > Yeah but so does esd and jack and other sound system daemons. > This is all fine and good until: > 1. you're a newbie (GUI-only) > 2. you install a bunch of audio rpms (Mandrake and others) > 3. esd/arts/alsa/jack/etc. all start walking over each other > > Just hypothetical of course.
It sounds like you're a bit short on sound system knowledge... First off, ALSA doesn't do the same job as esd, arts or jack. ALSA is a collection of sound drivers, the others are daemons that interface with sound drivers. esd and arts should never "walk all over each other" - one belongs to GNOME and should only be running when GNOME is running, one belongs to KDE and should only be running when KDE is running. If this isn't the case you're doing something wrong. > I assume the major complaint is: > "I'm a newbie, I don't want arts on my system ever, I don't have KDE, > and arts is somehow installed and on. How do I get rid of it?" See above. If this is what's happening, something is wrong. arts shouldn't be running if KDE isn't. -- adamw
