[vox-tech] sound, kde, xmms, arts

[Jonathan Stickel]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:29:46PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>With my recent upgrade to KDE 3.2 (and arts 1.2), arts is broken in xmms 
>> (ver. 1.2.8):  xmms locks up when I hit "play" and I have to kill it. 
>> I can still use xmms with ALSA and OSS, but only if I completely kill 
>>arts.  I was not able to find a way to fix xmms+arts.
> 
> 
> I had to do this for my dad.  I decided to let artsd run, and then
> discovered that XMMS would hang, as you discovered.
> 
> I asked around and the solution was to run esd ON TOP of artsd, and then
> have XMMS talk to esd.
> 
> Crazy... and latency is probably horrible... but then again, it's just
> XMMS, it's not like a game (where sound effect latency would become quite
> irritating and unsettling). :^)
> 
> I think the trick was to run:
> 
>   artsdsp esd
> 
> 
> You'll hear the little rising tones from ESD starting up, hopefully.
> Then XMMS should work, if you tell it to pipe thru ESD.
> 

OK, this didn't work exactly for me.  Instead, I'm now running artsd ON 
TOP of esd.  This is actually a choice in KDE's control center, but I 
never tried it because it seemed a foolish way to run things.  But it 
works!  Both GAIM and xmms have esd as an option, and now they play nice.

Thanks all for the suggestions!

Jonathan