I seem to have a bit of trouble understanding why I seem to have problems with alsa and arts coexisting on a desktop. It seems that sometimes arts runs and other times its in the way. For example, to have access to my sound system I have to do a killall artsd before running audacity. I sometimes have trouble getting sound in kscd, klear and kaffeine. I fiddle with things and everything is ok then its not Can someone point me to some meaningfull info on this as googling about seems to indicate that there has been various problems in various distros between running arts and alsa. TIA -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Boomtime, the 72nd of Chaos, 3172 http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~rickfrm/ ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.