On Friday 21 November 2003 16:06, Daniel James wrote:
Given that the two most popular 'KDE
supporter' Linux distributions
(SUSE and Mandrake) also install ALSA by default, maybe dmix rather
than artsd support is what we should be lobbying the KDE developers
for.
What we should be lobbying the KDE developers about - and also working
towards from the audio end is ensuring compatibility between ALSA/Jack apps
and KDE in general.
I'm using Agnula/Demudi and it's taken a fair amount of juggling to be able
to have both KDE and ALSA apps running in the same installation. This has
more to do with libqt3 versions than ALSA. I assume this is due to many audio
developers not using KDE at all (?yes that's an assumption). I can't remember
where, but I know I've read many times the suggestion that we should disable
arts in Kcontrol. I don't miss the whistles and bells at all - if I need an
audible reminder I put cdplay in an "at" or "cron" job. Frankly I
can't see
myself doing any serious audio work using the KDE desktop - if I need a gui
I'll use fluxbox, however it would be nice to easily switch between modes as
has been suggested.
btw: I tried running Jack on a P133 and
hahahahahaha you must be joking :-)
take care & take it often
tim hall