[gentoo-user] Question about arts.
Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have started alsasound before, if that has anything to do with it, and sound works fine. I'm about to start the big KDE compile and was wondering before I started. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) :-) Hmmm, while I am at it, what's the difference between xorg-x11 and xorg-server? I hope I didn't emerge the wrong one. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hmmm, while I am at it, what's the difference between xorg-x11 and xorg-server? I hope I didn't emerge the wrong one. xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge xorg-x11, which then emerges the X-server proper alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hmmm, while I am at it, what's the difference between xorg-x11 and xorg-server? I hope I didn't emerge the wrong one. xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge xorg-x11, which then emerges the X-server proper alan Uh oh. I hope I can go back and emerge xorg-x11 and it all works OK. Here we go. Thanks much. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have started alsasound before, if that has anything to do with it, and sound works fine. arts is never needed for multiple alsa-capable applications to access any sound card now, as the dmix plugin is enabled by default since alsa version 1.0.9. OSS-only applications are still a problem however, as only one can access the sound card at a time. That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
Richard Fish wrote: On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have started alsasound before, if that has anything to do with it, and sound works fine. arts is never needed for multiple alsa-capable applications to access any sound card now, as the dmix plugin is enabled by default since alsa version 1.0.9. OSS-only applications are still a problem however, as only one can access the sound card at a time. That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. -Richard Thanks. Now to start the whooper compile. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have started alsasound before, if that has anything to do with it, and sound works fine. I'm about to start the big KDE compile and was wondering before I started. If you want all the KDE goodies in the sound domain (system notifications and such) you better do for the time being (pre-KDE4). Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using arts? :O I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the conclusion that the latter would be better than the former... -- Bo Andresen pgpeQgK0fiNru.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with arts support with this card? I never have started alsasound before, if that has anything to do with it, and sound works fine. I'm about to start the big KDE compile and was wondering before I started. If you want all the KDE goodies in the sound domain (system notifications and such) you better do for the time being (pre-KDE4). Uwe I did. It has been working so far. I'm just trying to clean up a little here. My old install has really been put through the works while I have been learning Gentoo for the past 3 years or so. Doing a really nice clean install. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :D :D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using arts? :O The latter... I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the conclusion that the latter would be better than the former... ...well I was playing with this last week. Without arts enabled in kcontrol, and KDE set to use an external player, I recall having a noticable delay between when a dialog appeared or other event occurred and when the sound would play. With arts enabled and playing sounds through it, the sounds played almost immediately. I could be incorrect on this though, as I was having problems with notifications playing in general, even through artsd (which I eventually traced to having artsplugin-xine installed _without_ artsplugin-audiofile, which caused artsd to want to play all audio through xine plugins, and fail with unable to open file more often than not). Others are welcome to share their experiences with external players and KDE notifications. ;-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
Richard Fish wrote: On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME. As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using arts? :O The latter... I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the conclusion that the latter would be better than the former... ...well I was playing with this last week. Without arts enabled in kcontrol, and KDE set to use an external player, I recall having a noticable delay between when a dialog appeared or other event occurred and when the sound would play. With arts enabled and playing sounds through it, the sounds played almost immediately. I could be incorrect on this though, as I was having problems with notifications playing in general, even through artsd (which I eventually traced to having artsplugin-xine installed _without_ artsplugin-audiofile, which caused artsd to want to play all audio through xine plugins, and fail with unable to open file more often than not). Others are welcome to share their experiences with external players and KDE notifications. ;-) -Richard Now that you mentioned it, a long time ago I had to use a external player because I could not get any sound at all. This was a long time ago though. Maybe a year to year and a half or so. I think I was using KDE 3.4 or so. I kept the flag in there just in case. It can't hurt that much I guess. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:14, Richard Fish wrote: As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using arts? :O The latter... I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the conclusion that the latter would be better than the former... ...well I was playing with this last week. Without arts enabled in kcontrol, and KDE set to use an external player, I recall having a noticable delay between when a dialog appeared or other event occurred and when the sound would play. With arts enabled and playing sounds through it, the sounds played almost immediately. I could be incorrect on this though, as I was having problems with notifications playing in general, even through artsd (which I eventually traced to having artsplugin-xine installed _without_ artsplugin-audiofile, which caused artsd to want to play all audio through xine plugins, and fail with unable to open file more often than not). Others are welcome to share their experiences with external players and KDE notifications. ;-) Thanks for clarification. :) IIRC KDE notifications didn't work at all if I didn't compile kdelibs with the arts use flag. Anyhow, my current approach is to compile kde-base/kdelibs with the arts use flag and everything else without it. In kcontrol in Sound Multimedia - Sound system I have disabled the sound system and in Sound Multimedia - System Notifications - Player Settings I have chosen /usr/bin/playsound as external player. I at least haven't noticed any delays. $ equery belongs playsound [ Searching for file(s) playsound in *... ] media-libs/sdl-sound-1.0.1-r1 (/usr/bin/playsound) YMMV -- Bo Andresen pgpc47SwZlHkx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:50:01 -0500, Dale wrote: xorg-server is a result of the new modular X. xorg-x11 depends on xorg-server, so you emerge xorg-x11, which then emerges the X-server proper Uh oh. I hope I can go back and emerge xorg-x11 and it all works OK. Here we go. You shouldn't need to explicitly emerge xorg, just let portage pull in the correct package as a dependency of whatever X programs you install. -- Neil Bothwick Make like a tree and leave. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
