Kevin Krammer is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! <snip> > > > > Does this mean that arts is using alsa to provide sound? > > Yes. > aRts will compose the audio data it gets, e.g. decode compressed data like > OGG vorbis and then write this to the sound driver depending on its > configuration > > > > so from ALSA's point of view > > > Arts should look like one of its applications. > > > > Does this mean alsa is being supplied sound by by an application called > > arts? > > If ALSA is the sound system which aRts is configured to use then yes. > > > I'd just like to know why I can't access input devices in audacity unless > > I kill all arts pids or run audacity with the command "artsdsp -m > > audacity" > > Hmm, does your ALSA setup allow concurrent access to the sound device? e.g. > having a card that allows to be accessed by more than one application or an > ALSA level sound mixer > > Check by running to ALSA programs other than aRts > Thanks Kevin, Worrying sound is fairly new to me as I/ve started fooling around with dvb-t, video and sound files. I'll have to figure out what I have that uses alsa and not arts. Maybe its an alsa problem. I woke up this morning, booted up and had no sound at all until I ran alsaconf alsamixer and alsactl store. I had sound when I walked away last night albeit I did have two scheduled mencoder jobs before the automated shutdown. -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Boomtime, the 14th of Discord, 3172 http://people.aapt.net.au/~frmrick/ ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.