artsd

Wed Feb 18 15:03:45 UTC 2004

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:42:56 -0800, David Finch wrote:

> What would cause artsd to have a 90% or so idle cpu usage? I noticed it after getting an erratic frame rate of 1-10fps in Tux Racer. After killing the process I got a very smooth frame rate.
> 
> I've got artsd version 1.20, and kernel 2.6.2-1.81.

Why did you post this as a reply to a message with the subject "Broadcom
BCM57xx NIC (tg3)"? Please don't hijack message threads. 

To answer your question, the implementation of KDE's sound server (aRts)
does not like ALSA's OSS compatibility layer (probably it makes unsafe
assumptions about low-level driver behaviour), but when choosing an audio
device, it takes OSS even when native ALSA is available.  For further
reference:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115507

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