[Xastir] Festival Problem

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bob Snyder wrote:

> KDE uses arts to multiplex multiple audio streams to the audio device.
> If your mp3 player has the audio device open, your mail program can't
> open it to play a "new message" alert.
>
> One option to avoid disabling arts is to start non-arts-aware programs
> that want to use the audio device with "artsdsp" first, which shows the
> program a "fake" /dev/audio /dev/dsp setup which it can open and close
> to it's heart's content, but the data send to it is instead redirected
> to the arts server to mix in to the audio stream. (eg "artsdsp festival
> --server")
>
> When dealing with soundcard modems disabling arts at least temporarily
> and locking use to the PSK/RTTY/SSTV/etc application is probably the
> right thing to do, but for occasional messages, you probably want to
> keep arts.

Care if I add that info to the Festival section of the INSTALL file?

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