[ltp] T23 Suse sound problems

[Mitch Pirtle]

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On Saturday 24 August 2002 16:00, Norman Levin wrote:
> Suse has some kind of a 'sound subsystem' that gets started and tries
> to take over /dev/dsp.  I get some sound out for a while, then it
> quits and I get an error message 'cpu overload - program error'

I'll play Nostradamus because its Monday and I'm in a good mood ;^P

(fondles crystal ball)

You are using SuSE, which means you are using ALSA, KDE and ARTS.

The fix:  go into KDE control center, sound, sound server.  Make sure "St=
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aRts soundserver on KDE startup" is NOT selected.  This is your problem, =
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some reason the default settings for aRts are not sane.  You can also=20
experiment with the Sound I/O tab and move around the response time, if y=
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wish aRts to run as a process (and not just on demand).

The problem:  aRts comes with a default setting of 'lock the CPU' regardi=
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latency settings.  I have seen this even on SMP machines.  I do not know =
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it is done with this as the default.  *shrug*

And to quote David Byrne, "Am I right?  Am I wrong?"

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards=0D
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Mitch
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