On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, gabriel uttered the following immortal words, > > i have a soundblaster live value card which (as far as i know) is very much > capable of mixing multiple channels of audio. does this mean that i should > have multiple copies of /dev/dsp? (ie. dsp1 dsp2 etc.) and do i need arts > then? if i don't, how do i disable it forever in kde? No, just that /dev/dsp can be opened multiple times. You dont need esd, but for some reason KDE needs artsd to work for sound so you will ne ed artsd running.
> all i want is to be able to play video/mp3 files and play flash movies with > reasonable performance kde, but even on this sweet athlon 2500 w/ 512mb ram, > i've not been able to get that. please tell me i'm missing something. Well my combination is mozilla 1.4 with the libraries from the linux flash player. It works fine. Grendel -- Grendels annoyance filter is so advanced it puts people to the killfile even before they have posted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
