[ltp] Sound Daemon

Michael Olbrich linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:34:33 +0200


How do you start it? Realtime priority and/or a bigger sound buffer
may help. ("artswrapper -F 20 -S 256 ..." if you start it manually)
artswrapper must be set suid root. It basically starts artsd and changes
the priority.

Michael

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:28:07PM -0500, Dan Borello wrote:
> Arts works but seems to have greater overhead or something.  If xmms is
> playing through arts and I do anything that requires a big screen redraw
> xmms skips.  Simple things like changing tabs in galeon will cause
> this.  If i just use the direct driver this does not happen.  Any
> insight?
>