> Who all is having problems with the libarts-alsa package? I don't use KDE currently (it randomly freezes on my laptop a few minutes after login) but I have had some experience with ALSA recently. The latest version of arts is 0.9betasomething whereas the latest version of libarts-alsa is 0.5something. From my experiences with ALSA, there was a change in the protocol ALSA uses in communicating through the /dev devices. Thus applications which use ALSA 0.5 libraries won't work with ALSA 0.9 kernel modules.
It's a bit of a mess actually. There are 0.9 versions of the various ALSA packages in testing except alsa-base or something like that which are 0.5 in testing and 0.9 in unstable. In order to get ALSA to work on my system I hade to install all the 0.9 packages from testing and some from unstable. Two possible solutions would be to recompile/port libarts-alsa with alsa 0.9 or split it into a 0.5 and 0.9 version. Ciao, Gordon
