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On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:51:07 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote: |
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> Thank you... i will do that. |
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> What does artsd and why is it installed? |
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It is the KDE sound daemon, esd performs a similar task for GNOME. Sound |
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daemons are a way for more than one application to be able to use the |
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sound device, even if it doesn't support hardware mixing, so a program |
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alert can beep when you are listening to music. ALSA now supports mixing |
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out of the box, so sound daemons are largely redundant. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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TROI : What am I sensing?? I'm sensing INCOMPETENCE, you pretentious |
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bald pseudo-French dickweed! |
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