[LAU] Hello and configuring audio

[M-.-n]

Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> good news. so your hardware is not the problem.
> iirc, amarok can use a number of audio backends - my guess is it's using
> aRTs (as someone else suggested already). perhaps arts is ok, but messes
> up other program's audio performance?
>   
I've disabled aRTs, wired amarok to alsa and it still plays fine. VLC 
still chokes on mp3 payback tho. VLC has specific settings for alsa and 
oss audio but I haven't found and preference to choose between the two.
Another wierd thing is that /dev/dsp is locked. I can't write to it. Is 
this normal if aRTs is done. Are the OSS devices 'emulated' and actually 
have ALSA implementation or are they totally different thing ?