Re: XMMS and aRts output not functional YDL2.1


Subject: Re: XMMS and aRts output not functional YDL2.1
frazz@lump.mine.nu
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 12:12:21 MST


Charlie,

        I'm the same person that posted that aRts is now functional with
the official kernel tree. So obviously there is something more to it than
that. And Yes I am able to get xmms to work using OSS drivers, but then I
loose all of the KDE sounds, defintely not a good solution.

        -Frazz

On Thu, 25 Feb 1904, Charlie Watts wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, frazz@lump.mine.nu wrote:
>
> > I am having troubel with XMMS 1.2.4-12 that comes with YDL 2.1 and
> > the aRts output plugin that is included with it. It does not seem to
> > be functional. I get the following error...
> >
> > arts_init error: loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la"
> > failed
>
> There are known problems with the aRts server and PPC in KDE at this time.
>
> There was a posting earlier today that the brand-newest kernels have fixed
> this, but the brand-newest BenH kernel didn't fix it for me, and the
> mainline kernels don't have audio drivers for my iBook2.
>
> My solution? Kill the aRts server and let xmms use the esound plugin.
> Works great ... but only for esound-compatible apps.
>
>



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