>Not sure what you mean. >Did you change to an external player or change aRts output to ALSA instead of >autodetect?
Ja, I changed aRTs output to ALSA instead of autodetect >If you are not using aRts as the sound output for SDL you should still reduce >its timeout for device releasing. How can I do this? >However any other application using the device could also hold the device and >this could result in a delay in game startup (if the game waits until the >device becomes available) As I know, there is no process in background, that holds the device. Maybe a Deamon? I didn't find anythink. But its maybe simply the KDE-System? I own only a Duron 1200 with 256MB. Thats enough for Woody and KDE 2.2. But now with Sarge and KDE 3.3? By the way, loading a NWN-module takes also minutes now!!! Gruss Christian -- Christian Stalp Institut f�r Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit�t Mainz Tel.: 06131 / 17-3107 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

