garyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Apparently, I'm running arts. Great. One more thing I don't really > understand. > > Now, I've been to arts-project.org and see that it's the Analog > Realtime Synth, blah blah blah. > > Questions: do I need it to capture audio from the sound card? Should > I be trying to trouble- shoot it? Or is it getting in the way of > things? > > artsd --help says you can select ALSA as the IO method. I wasn't able > to select it from the KDE control module, though. That a problem, ya' > think? > > Anybody? > Once I found out that KDE starts the aRTs server upon KDE Startup, I shut the think off immediatly. I don't need another thing getting in My way. I do it by going to... --> Control Center --> Sound --> Sound Server --> (un)check "Start aRTs Server on KDE Startup" I think it may require a reboot to (un)activate aRTs (just to taunt you further... hehe). Rocco