refriedbean
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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: Telling arts to use another device (ALSA) |
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Hey there!
My sound card (ES1371) has two DSPs, which can be very handy. I used to use OSS on my desktop, and I just told Artsd to use /dev/dsp1. Then all my kde apps had sound, and all my non kde apps could use /dev/dsp.
Well, now I've switched to the 2.6 kernels (and ALSA). I noticed when I just tell arts to use /dev/adsp (alsa's oss emulation's equivalent to /dev/dsp1), arts shoots up to 90% CPU usage, and its just generally not very well behaved.
Now I want to tell arts to use ALSA instead. The default ALSA device arts uses is hw:0,0 (or /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p according to lsof). The good news here is that when I use that device, arts uses only 1% CPU, and its very stable (And has good sound quality). The bad news is, I can't get Arts to use hw:0,1. Not from the KDE control center anyway.
When I start up artsd manualy from an xterm, with this command artsd -a alsa -D hw:0,1 , it works fine. But as soon as I try to tell arts to use hw:0,1 (in Control Center > sounds & multimedia > sound system). I get this message : | Code: | Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: hw:0,1 can't be opened for capture (No such file or directory) |
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Ok,, this post has gotten waaay to long.. 
Basically, what I want to know is, how do I tell Artsd to use the ALSA device hw:0,1?
Thanks!!!
Refried
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