Op zondag 30 september 2007, schreef Kelly: > On Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:35:32 am Andy Esten wrote: > > During the login phase I hear the sound from the kde login event. But at > > some time the arts sound systems seems to halt. I cannot even stop artsd > > with a normal (TERM) kill. I have to use kill -9 (SIGKILL) to terminate > > artsd. > > Yeah, KDE is awesome but aRts is retardedly flimsy. I usually try to avoid > using it and have things pump through another daemon (PulseAudio). KDE > itself has to use aRts but the system seems to have an easier time with it, > vs trying to use aRts for most sound... This means there is no solution for aRts? My configuration worked flawless with Fedora Core 6. I have tested some further and I think it has something to do with kmail. When several accounts have new mail kmail reports this event with a sound. For some reason this will cause the aRts deadlock/hang. How can I investigate this any further? Andy
