[TriLUG] Question: LAN Gaming Party (where?)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 09:33, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> Under Control Panel, Sound, Sound Server, there is an option "Start aRts
> soundserver on KDE startup". When I had problems with UT under Linux not
> getting sound, I called Loki (yes REAL Loki support!) and he told me to turn
> this off and restart X. aRts takes full control of the sound card and
> doesn't let other products go directly to the hardware, only through it, and
> the games don't like that.

Actually, there's an even easier way.  At the command line type:

artsshell suspend

This will suspend the arts sound server and allow you to run
other things that access the sound card.  When they stop, it
will automatically run arts again when an arts enabled app
wants the sound card.

If you use esd you can do the same thing.  I believe it's command is

esdctl off

When you want it to come back on, though, you have to type

esdctl on

This is what I have to do to get sound with the quicktime plugin
from crossover plugin.

Hope this helps,
Tanner
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