On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running FC2 on a Dell Latitude c840 laptop. I'm running also SuSE 9 there. > I'm trying to make xmms behave properly. I need to enable the aRts plugin on > xmms so I can listen to music while I still get kde sound notifications. The > problem is that, by selecting the aRts plugin on xmms, there's a noticeable > delay when I change the volume there. If I lower the music, I'll do it, and 2 > seconds later the volume lowers...If I stop the music, it takes 2 seconds > before it stops. This sucks. > > I can't change the aRts plugin to ALSA or other because other apps won't be > able to use the sound device. This is a cheap integrated card. > > The funny thing is that in SuSE 9 (kde 3.1.4) using XMMS 1.2.8 and aRts plugin > 0.4 none of above happens. I lower the volume, and imediately you see the > results. I wonder if this is a kde 3.2 (artsd) issue or should I try the xmms > 1.2.8 and aRts plugin 0.4 combination that comes with SuSE? > > Thanks for any help. > > Jorge > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Jorge, in the configuration settings of the aRts plugin for XMMS try lowering the buffer value as low as you can (200 was a low as I could go in my xmms). You may have to restart xmms for this to take effect. -- Gunnar vS Kramm San Francisco, CA http://www.thekramms.com gpg public key: http://thekramms.com/keys/gkramm.gpg
