Other than the fact that KDE will use arts and most others will use esd, I
don't think changing your window manager will have any effect.
I think gaim uses esd, so try telling mplayer to use esd as well.
If you have a config file in your .mplayer folder, just add 'ao=esd' I think.
Otherwise, you can do 'mplayer -ao esd' and it should hopefully pipe sound
through it, along with gaim. I don't know if gaim can be configured to use
arts. I don't think it particularly cares what you use.
If you are using kde, you can try 'artsdsp gaim' and with mplayer, tell it to
use arts instead of esd.
nathan
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:10, mike hoy wrote:
> volinaz@cox.net wrote:
> >Mike,
> > I would not trade it in. I am using a Compaq 1800t which has a pIII
> > 800mhz cpu, and 128mb RAM, and I can play dvd's with no problem. I am
> > also using SuSE 9.1 pro. I would have to say you have other<issues, and I
> > would stop running other apps in the background while watching movies,
>
> No i do not run other apps while watching movies. I'm using mplayer for
> music when gaim is running. While i watch a dvd movie my gaim app is not
> running.
> My next attempt is to run a lightweight wm like xfce or fluxbox and see
> if I have the same problem.
>
> >as this is an unneeded burden on a system that is already running hot.
> > Laptops were not designed to run "heavy" loads, they are not to replace
> > desktops.....
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >>From: mike hoy <mhoy4@cox.net>
> >>Date: 2005/01/17 Mon PM 08:34:22 EST
> >>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >>Subject: Re: Advice requested
> >>
> >>what i meant about shared ram is of the 512 mb of ram you can choose how
> >>much is given to the video card. the video card requires you to dedicate
> >>some of your ram otherwise it won't work.
> >>
> >>mike hoy
> >>
> >>der.hans wrote:
> >>>Am 17. Jan, 2005 schwätzte mike hoy so:
> >>>>I have a compaq r3000 presario P4 laptop with 512 mb of ram shared to
> >>>>the ATI radeon video card.
> >>>>I can't play dvd's. My error: Too Many Video Packets in the buffer. The
> >>>>sound shuts off and the movie keeps playing.
> >>>>The sound doesn't work right. It can't work with more than one
> >>>>application. Ex: gaim and mplayer can't use the sound card at the same
> >>>> time.
> >>>>
> >>>>Rather than try to fix this problem I would like to know if I ought to
> >>>>trade this compaq for a more linux friendly laptop or should I just
> >>>>sell it and then buy a used laptop known to work well with linux?
> >>>
> >>>I dislike it when people answer a question different than the one asked,
> >>>but I'm gonna do it anyway :).
> >>>
> >>>First off, I dunno about trading it in, so I'm not much help there.
> >>>
> >>>Have you tried to use arts, esd or another sound daemon? The sound
> >>> daemon would be the only thing talking to the sound card. Sound daemons
> >>> can listen to multiple applications at the same time, though.
> >>>
> >>>The linux laptop howto used to point to a repository of links for people
> >>>who published their experiences with laptops. Maybe it has some links
> >>>that'll help you.
> >>>
> >>>Don't know about the system and video card sharing RAM.
> >>>
> >>>ciao,
> >>>
> >>>der.hans
> >>
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