On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:22, Sven Jacobs wrote: > Looks like arts is started and thus blocks your sound device. If your > soundcard supports hardware mixing then try to disable arts (see > KControl/Sound & Multimedia/Sound system). Your applications then need > to use the native ALSA driver. If you need to use arts then make sure > that all your applications are compiled with arts support and that they > use arts output plugins (like XMMS for example). If the hardware supports mixing with the ALSA drivers, wouldn't it be enough to have aRts use its ALSA output? Cheers, Kevin ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.