I upgraded kdelibs and kdebase from 3.5.1 to 3.5.1-r1. Since then, kde is not able to start arts with alsa. It says that arts will use the null output device. I installed jack, and tried to use the jack output backend, but arts refused to use it as well. Afterwards, I tried to run artsd from console, and it started without problem with either alsa and jack. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/" LINGUAS="he" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X X509 acpi alsa amuled ansi apm arts artswrappersuid asf avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 bzlib cairo cddb cdparanoia crypt ctype cups dbus dga divx4linux doc dpms dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran ftp gcl gdbm gif glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal haskell i8x0 icq imagemagick imlib jack jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal latex libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg msn ncurses network nls nomotif nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive opengl pam pango pdf pdflib perl pic plotutils png python qt readline real sdl sensord spell sse sse2 ssl subversion tcpd tetex threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode win32codecs xcomposite xine xml2 xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_he userland_GNU video_cards_i915 video_cards_i810" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Is this still a problem with arts-3.5.5?
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