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On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote: |
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> Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through |
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> the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change |
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> before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly |
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> because I was doing a preserved-rebuild and other packages had it |
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> enabled. I don't guess a -N option would take on that emerge. |
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> I think I did this once before and my sound disappeared. Everything |
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> went mute so I may be back. It may just be a setting in KDE or |
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> something that needs changing. That was a while ago to. I barely |
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> remember it. Then again, maybe it wasn't sooo long ago. What did I |
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> have for breakfast today? ^_^ |
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The only reason arts ever existed at all was to do sound mixing in software in |
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the days when hardware generally did not do that. |
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These days alsa takes care of all of that. OSS-4 does a better job I hear, but |
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in any case you do not need arts. If you did, how would it be possible to hear |
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sound in a flash video in a browser on a non-KDE system? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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