From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GN2yH-0008Bn-B8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:46:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8C7jBnb030731; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:45:11 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8C7b8bj030716 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:37:38 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so2148240wxc for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:37:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=PBIb3ok+yJJq+aAVo2pth2gVvelqSELcsbuT3gvk1SLkJJQHJfHLr5xvsMnYPQ3VmU//wyvd0PeU82c79JS9rq+YCOSHp247hW+8NeA4EC6Q/NG7INseepH4OiGa59R8ybs5ityxgY25OKiA4VMIu4/3D989oeBMcs2D3CaxN4k= Received: by 10.70.83.4 with SMTP id g4mr7435300wxb; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.110.1 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640609120037m28004299he8d14aa473212fc3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:37:38 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts. In-Reply-To: <45065242.2000800@vista-express.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45065242.2000800@vista-express.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1bf5a396fc247188 X-Archives-Salt: 22a592d7-3b5c-4992-a941-aedcb66e4034 X-Archives-Hash: 22ff85536979bb627fc114cfe51e4d0f On 9/11/06, 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. 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