On Wednesday 12 July 2006 22:54, nigel henry wrote: > > > > Also, if you use KDE, make sure that aRts is not hanging on to the sound > > system. > > > > Anne > > Hi Anne. That shouldn't be a problem with the Audigy ZS, at least it isn't > with my Audigy2 soundblaster which is able to handle multiple audio > streams. I have aRts running, and there's no problem listening to a live > audio stream at the same time. This can't be said for the other machine > that uses an Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver). this is not capable of multiple > audio streams. It's a case here of one or the other. One hilarious side > affect of this is listening to a live audio stream from Internet radio, > then opening Gaim. 2 hrs later you shut down the Internet radio, and then > receive all the sounds that Gaim has tried to send while you were IM'ing. > I use an earlier Audigy card, but I discovered that the aRts setting in KDE Sound & Multimedia was the cause of the problem I had at that time. It's the 'Suspend when idle' setting that was too high. I re-set it to 1 second, and have used that ever since. Just in case it helps anyone else .... :-) Anne
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