Rick Miles wrote: > 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. Try this: In the Control Center: Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System, At the bottom of the "General" tab check: "Auto-suspend if idle after" and set it to "1 seconds" -- DO NOT set to "0 seconds". -- JRT ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.