[ale] KDE/aRtsd?

[Michael B. Trausch]

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joh6nn at hotpop.com wrote On 04/19/2006 11:51 AM:
> i frequently have trouble with arts, though i don't know that i've ever
> run across that particular issue.  often times, i can fix problems i'm
> having with arts by forcing it to suspend.  to do this, i open
> artscontrol (/usr/bin/artscontrol on my box), open Status from the View
> menu, and click the "Suspend Now" button.  This almost always "fixes"
> things (eg, sound returns to normal).  when it doesn't, killing and
> restarting artsd seems to work well enough.
> 
> i've seen reports that KDE is giving very serious thought to abandoning
> arts, and i for one welcome our new, functional, sound daemon overlords.
> 

Yeah, I can see why.  I haven't had any problems with it until now, and
I cannot for the *life* of me figure out what is wrong; I just know that
whatever it is, it is persistant across bounces of the process as well
as restarting the entire machine, the wiping out of /tmp/*, /var/tmp/*,
~/.kde/share/config/the-arts-config-file-thingy (I don't recall its name
offhand) and so forth, and it doesn't matter if root, my user, or a new
user executes it, it has the same problem.

*sigh*

At this point the only thing I can think of is something that affects it
globally.  I've attempted to rebuild both components of the aRts server
and it's not fixed it, so there has to be a global config file
*somewhere* that has changed in the past... four days or so.  But I
can't find it.  :-(

	- Mike
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