Artsd seems to hang

[Kelly]

On Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:35:32 am Andy Esten wrote:
> During the login phase I hear the sound from the kde login event. But at
> some time the arts sound systems seems to halt. I cannot even stop artsd
> with a normal (TERM) kill. I have to use kill -9 (SIGKILL) to terminate
> artsd.

Yeah, KDE is awesome but aRts is retardedly flimsy.  I usually try to avoid 
using it and have things pump through another daemon (PulseAudio).  KDE 
itself has to use aRts but the system seems to have an easier time with it, 
vs trying to use aRts for most sound...

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