On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:12:02AM -0400, Gordon Tyler wrote: > > 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.
arts does not work with alsa 0.9. only 0.5 currently. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
