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Hi,

I just switched to Gentoo, installed KDE 3.2.1 and sound is working great for all KDE apps that use arts, but things like xmms that use alsa, won't work unless I stop artsd and I have to be switching between both.

Is there a way to allow both systems (arts and alsa) to access the card simultaneously so that I do not have to stop artsd every time I want to use xmms?

Thanks for your time,

Andi

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Original von CrashedAgain

There is an aRTS plugin for xmms. Check xmms site.

I thought so... kinda remembered something like I had seen something like that... The thing is, that I just mentioned xmms, but maybe I should also have mentioned that I use ardour and some other tools that rely on alsa.

I just mentioned xmms because I kinda got frustrated last night, because I was swiching between xmms and some KDE based audio tools. But I'd really like to find a solution that would allow both Alsa based tool and Arts based tools to coexist (if such a thing does in fact exist).

This is actually not a new issue, I used Ardour before, "tried to" I should say... when I was running Redhat 9 on my machine... but Redhat was so unbelievably slow :roll: that I ended up switching to gentoo... I really needed a fast OS to do some audio editing... Gentoo is MUCH faster on my hardware. I guess after 9 years with redhat, Mandrake and Suse and some OpenBSD experience... I also had to try Gentoo to see if it would help improve the whole media experience... And it does!!!

Thanks, CrashedAgain, for mentioning the arts plugin for xmms, at least that fixes my immediate frustration. :wink:

Does anyone know then? If there is a way to actually run e.g. Ardour or Alsaplayer and still be able to e.g. hear the KDE system notifications (they rely on Artsd) or use Juk or any other software that relies on Arts?


Any help is appreciated,

Andi