Christoph Eckert wrote: >>artsd because it currently on the machine I'm working with >>right now continouisly tries to start. When I kill it, it >>starts again, for mysterious reasons, only seconds later. >>Sometimes, it is even owned by root, and I have to kill it >>as root. Even that doesnt help, it starts again and again >>and again. > > > did you check the KDE control center to disable arts? > > >>flashplayer because it lives inside a browser and should >>not have been allowed to occupy the soundcard. Sometimes, >>the only way to get sound (in proper programs, like jack), >>is to exit the browser. > > > I guess this is not a problem of the flash plugin itself but > the browser itself. The plugin tells the browser to output > sound, and your browser catches the audio device. are you sure? I noticed that even if you set mozilla to use arts or esd some plugins (flash) try to open the /dev/dsp (and mozilla freezes). erik
