On Wednesday 29 January 2003 22:14, Austin Acton wrote:
> Hey,
> I ran a mini survey on Linux Audio Users Group to ask people about
> Mandrake.  Mostly I just wanted to know what packages to work on, but I
> also asked them what we needed to improve to make 9.1 the primo audio
> distribution (other than more software).

The problem with aRts is that is does not run with real-time priority, so for 
example switching desktops causes a blip in audio playback.

aRts needs to be suid root, and switch to the current user after it has set 
prority to real-time.

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John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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