How can I make arts play nicely with xmms (or any other sound application)?
Let’s start with ls /dev/dsp*. If you get a list like this (and you probably will, most modern sound cards will be auto set up this way) you’re already good to go: /dev/dsp /dev/dsp0.0 /dev/dsp0.2 /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp0.1 /dev/dsp0.3 If you only have dsp + dsp0, or possibly dsp0.0, you need to set some things up by hand. Put the following two lines into /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 In the KDE Control Center, tell arts to use /dev/dsp0.1. If you use esd, tell it to use /dev/dsp0.2 (just don’t ask me how to do that, I don’t use esd). Applications like XMMS and others will continue to use the defaults (/dev/dsp0 or /dev/dsp0.0) and you will still have /dev/dsp0.3 if you come up with anything else that still clashes.
