[ltp] Sound Daemon

Dan Borello linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:31:28 -0500


I had been just starting it with 'artsd &' as the user.  I'll try
changing that stuff around.

dan

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:34, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> 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?
> >