I have a few questions about slack:

1/ My arts drivers seem to interfere with my ALSA drivers...so to be able to use my ALSA drivers when playing music with XMMS I figured that killing arts would work. But then no other sounds in KDE play since they use the arts driver, is there anyway to get both of them to work or to make ALSA the default driver for everything?

2/ Is there any single way to uninstall programs other than using the package removal tool privded by KDE?

3/ Is there any easy way to kill a task, when you aren't able to access the shell or the process manager. For example you launch a program and it full screens into a black screen, what do you do?

thanks in advance,

1) I remember when I used KDE I could set which sound daemon I wanted to use in a kind of Control Panel it had. And if my memory doesn't fail I disabled that because it was basically which sound daemon you wanted arts to use.

2) Yes, pkgtool and removepkg (see their man pages).

3) I press ctrl+alf+FX (some console) and type: killall process_name (or ps and then kill pid if I don't know the name of the process)

thanks for the reply to my questions,
i still have a question about #1 tho, i did try disabling the sound in the kde control center and it lets alsa play mp3's now without having to kill arts...however any sounds that KDE uses dont play anymore (As an example, minimizing or changing desktop sound), is there any way to make alsa the default driver to use for KDE?

I'm sure I didn't notice that when I used KDE because I generally disable sounds in all my systems/OSes/WMs/Desktops. Try instead of disabling totally arts, set it to use another output system, like instead of OSS to use ALSA, try the different choices you have.

See this thread for some interesting solutions to this age-old problem

Using mplayer as a KDE external player is one option. For more details, follow this link.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=290036

i looked at the thread but i can not find asound.conf nor asoundrc on my hd, is there any where else i can edit those few lines of code in?
btw im using slackware 10.1 with the 2.6.10 kernel

anyone?

They're not created by default, just create them by yourself, one should be /etc/asound.conf and the other on your home directory, ~/.asoundrc
You can create this files using the touch command:
The latest is specific to each user.

i tried putting that code into those files,
first I tried using each one of those files on their own without any success
so then i tried both of them together and it ddint work either
my KDE was set to have alsa on in the control center...
any ideas?