arts in that version couses high cpu load (takes about 50% of cpu on my athlon-xp 1700+). additionally sometimes sound isn't fluently (it sounds like it comes from under water;>). it's not from begging - when i start it it works ok - i'm getting these problems after few hours of using it. i hadn't got such problems with 1.3.1 version. here's my emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 12 2004, 23:28:28)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.9.3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mtune=athlon-xp -O3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -ffast-math -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -ffast-math -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms spinner" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://src.gentoo.pl/distfiles http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ #http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.pl/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib apache2 arts avi bitmap-fonts crypt cups dvd encode f77 fam fbcon fla flac fortran gd gif glut gphoto2 gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib imlib2 java javascript jikes jpeg lcms libwww mailwrapper mbox memlimit mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nocardbus nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl serial slang sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype usb userlocales v4l v4l2 videos vim-with-x wmf x86 xv xvid zlib" i've also tried to compile arts with CFLAGS="" CXXFLAGS="" but that doesn't help.
Arts was affected by similar problems for long time, see for instance http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77799 (but there are more if you search bugs.kde.org). Unfortunately, we cannot do much about it. If you cannot find help from posted bugs at bugs.kde.org, a solution is unlikely, since arts is currently unmaintained: http://dot.kde.org/1102062404/
that doesn't help me a lot, since i've got ALSA disbaled in kernel. in fact i have also OSS compiled as modules, which aren't loaded at this momment (i use drivers from http://opensound.com/). well - the problem could be in previous arts version but i might not notice it, since i've change my sound card recently (more or less in the same time, when arts-1.3.2 was released;>) and i used standard oss drivers ealier. anyway - thanks for link. i see that i can't fix it as far as alsa won't support my card (it's already partially supported in latest alsa-drivers;>) or i'll get rid of arts...
