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On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:49, Ming-Che Lee wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2005 21:27 schrieb Abhay Kedia: |
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> > Also, I like to use JuK as my audio player and use Skype |
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> > extensively. Will disabling arts trouble me? Is it a must to run |
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> > a sound server? Here I would like to mention that I am using an |
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> Skype requires artsd in order to work properly. I think I read it |
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> somewhere in the installation requirements of Skype. Prior to Skype |
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> I didn't have artsd enabled in KDE and there were no troubles. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ming-Che Lee |
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> Registered Linux User #241507 at http://counter.li.org |
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Skype does not require artsd, it uses OSS. This unfortunately means that you |
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have to stop all software, that is currently accessing the audio device in |
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order to use it (ALSA cannot do sw mixing, because it is done in userspace |
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and the drivers, including the oss emulation layer, run in kernel space). |
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This is why gentoo's ebuild for skype includes a wrapper script that checks |
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for the presence of artsd or esd and uses artsdsp or esddsp to start skype, |
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so that software mixing is not lost (if neither is present skype is started |
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normally). I tried using alsa's wrapper (aoss), but I did not have any |
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success. So if you dislike artsd, you can use esd, but I could not get skype |
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to work with it, meaning that it started normally, but after calling |
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somebody, I could not hear them and they could not hear me. |
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