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

[Erik Steffl]

Christoph Eckert wrote:
>>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.
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> did you check the KDE control center to disable arts?
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>>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.
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> 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.

   are you sure? I noticed that even if you set mozilla to use arts or 
esd some plugins (flash) try to open the /dev/dsp (and mozilla freezes).

	erik