--- Austin Acton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:09, David Walser wrote: > > If you really meant arts and not ALSA, it can be > > easily disabled through the KDE Control Center. > > Doesn't having arts *enable* some nifty multimedia > > capabilities though? I thought that was the > point. > > Hmm, can't comment personally, as I don't ever > install KDE. > But I have heard many 'no sound' problems or 'weird > behavior' problems > to which 'disable arts' was the solution. I've
Probably more a case of people misunderstanding arts. > never had this problem > but it does worry me that urpmi installs arts along > with many other > audio packages as a dependency, even if you're not > using it. Without > KDE control center how can one completely disable > it? arts is only running if you're in KDE. > As cool as it may be, jack looks like it will become > the top unix sound > interface, as it's extremely versatile and designed > for low-latency. I had heard Gnome was gonna adopt arts, but nothing has happened on that front. I wonder if they're now looking at jack. > Also, I was just repeating the comments I received, > true or false. Of course. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
