Sound problems

[david walcroft]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> david walcroft wrote:
>>> I have got the sound going via alsamixer but have found the problem lies
>>> in KDE,testing the sound in control centre/system notifications. works
>>> but not with progamme sound i:e "minimize" "close window"
>> Not really relevant, but my experience is the opposite.
>> I had no sound at all until I went to Control Centre=>Sound & Multimedia
>> =>Sound System , where I found "Enable the Sound System" was off.
>> After turning it on, and setting the "Auto-suspend if idle" to 0 seconds,
>> I get noises all the time, to the annoyance of others in the room.
>>
> I haven't been following this thread, but this statement caught my eye.  I 
> always set "Auto-suspend if idle" to 1 second, and found it helpful.  (This 
> from the time when I first discovered that aRts hogs the system unless you do 
> this.)  HTH
> 
> Anne
> 
I think I've found a problem with this error

"Impossible to start aRts with realtime priority because artswrapper is 
missing or disabled"

How do I restart artswrapper,it's in /usr/bin.

  Thanks   david