Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote:
Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through
the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change
before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly
because I was doing a preserved-rebuild and other packages had it
enabled. I don't guess a -N option would take on that emerge.
I think I did this once before and my sound disappeared. Everything
went mute so I may be back. It may just be a setting in KDE or
something that needs changing. That was a while ago to. I barely
remember it. Then again, maybe it wasn't sooo long ago. What did I
have for breakfast today? ^_^
The only reason arts ever existed at all was to do sound mixing in software in
the days when hardware generally did not do that.
These days alsa takes care of all of that. OSS-4 does a better job I hear, but
in any case you do not need arts. If you did, how would it be possible to hear
sound in a flash video in a browser on a non-KDE system?
And I think that was my problem. It would only play one sound at a time
and some things hogged up the sound system. Mine makes a sound when I
change desktops for instance and it would hold onto the sound system for
a minute or so before other sounds could use it.
It has been a while so I couldn't remember the details, just that it
wasn't working right. It works now tho. I played a video and changed
desktops and could hear them both. Yeppie !! No arts system.
Dale
:-) :-)
