These are the packages that would be merged, in order: I use the arts flage before I compile mythtv: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv [0.19_p9163-r1] USE="alsa arts -backendonly -dbox2 -debug -dvb dvd -frontendonly -ieee1394 -jack -joystick -lcd -lirc opengl vorbis xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 nvidia -via" 0 kB The ebuild tries to enable aRts: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1/work/mythtv-0.19... * Running ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir-name=lib64 --disable-audio-jack --disable-altivec --enable-xvmc --enable-audio-arts --disable-lirc --disable-joystick-menu --disable-dbox2 --disable-dvb --disable-dvb-eit --dvb-path=/usr/include --enable-dvd --enable-opengl-vsync --disable-firewire --enable-xrandr --enable-xv --disable-directfb --enable-x11 --enable-proc-opt --enable-mmx --compile-type=release --arch=opteron --disable-distcc But for some reason aRts support is disabled: # Sound Output Support OSS support yes ALSA support yes aRts support no JACK support no DTS passthrough yes 2006-06-11 12:02:17.431 AFD: Opened codec 0x8fee20, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video) 2006-06-11 12:02:17.460 AFD: Opened codec 0x8dade0, id(MP2) type(Audio) 2006-06-11 12:02:17.460 Audio output device is set to an ARTS device but ARTS support is not compiled in! 2006-06-11 12:02:17.460 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Unable to create AudioOutput.
you should really use alsa or oss directly... you're adding pointlessly to your audio overhead with arts... ALSA drivers now handle all the mixing needed. Arts support will be going away shortly but I'll fix this in a bit for you.
(In reply to comment #1) > you should really use alsa or oss directly... you're adding pointlessly to your > audio overhead with arts... ALSA drivers now handle all the mixing needed. Arts > support will be going away shortly but I'll fix this in a bit for you. > Is it possible now to use ALSA directly while aRts is running? If so, I'll just use that. I know that this was not always possible in the past I must have missed this development.
I just tried it now and I can use ALSA output while aRts applications are running all at the same time. I guess the bug is still valid in that the "arts" USE flag doesn't do anything, but it's not really needed anymore.
Hense why I said arts support is going away because it's pointless. Just like KDE will be ditching Arts soon enough.
(In reply to comment #4) > Hense why I said arts support is going away because it's pointless. > > Just like KDE will be ditching Arts soon enough. > Back when I first installed KDE ALSA didn't exist yet. You couldn't do all this fancy "multiple applications trying to output sound just works without user intervention" stuff. And I had to walk barefoot in the snow to school, uphill both ways :).
closing as wontfix. If someone *really really really* wants arts support, contact me directly and I'll setup an overlay + ebuild for you.
