[linux-audio-user] Re: What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Christoph Eckert]

> artsd because it currently on the machine I'm working with
> right now continouisly tries to start. When I kill it, it
> starts again, for mysterious reasons, only seconds later.
> Sometimes, it is even owned by root, and I have to kill it
> as root. Even that doesnt help, it starts again and again
> and again.

did you check the KDE control center to disable arts?

> flashplayer because it lives inside a browser and should
> not have been allowed to occupy the soundcard. Sometimes,
> the only way to get sound (in proper programs, like jack),
> is to exit the browser.

I guess this is not a problem of the flash plugin itself but 
the browser itself. The plugin tells the browser to output 
sound, and your browser catches the audio device.

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> (No, I don't want any help in fixing the artsd-thing, right
> now I just want to hate it)

We're working hard to make things better :) .


Best regards


    ce