Re: -CM packages and arts

On Monday 02 February 2004 02:31 pm, you wrote:
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> A fecha Friday 23 January 2004 18:05, Matthew Trent escribió algo así como:
> > Biggest problem seems to be when I play music (in anything that uses
> > arts), artsd takes 65% of my CPU (on a 1.6ghz P4). Probably just a bug in
> > CVS and not the packager's fault,
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> See, since I tried Arts when KDE 3.0.0 hit the ftp servers, and it sucked
> my CPU cycles. Later I upgraded to KDE 3.1.0, and Arts' CPU usage still
> sucked. Later came 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and the same. Even later, I started
> using orth's and Andreas' CVS snapshots, and artsd still sucked. I
> installed CM's packages and... guess what?  Arts sucks, right now.
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> IMHO, you should tell XMMS to use /dev/dsp, "killall artsd", and start
> listening yto your music.

It turned out arts was autodetecting the wrong sound system (OSS), when it 
should have been using ALSA. I forced it to ALSA and now it works great.
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Matt
Systems Administrator
Local Access Communications
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