Hello!

I have had some problems with the sound, too. This is what worked for me:

My machine is running KDE 3.4. In the Controlcenter-->Sound&Multimedia-->Sound-System-->Hardware I enabled auto detection, Full duplex and 16 bit quality. The Arts Soundserver is running realtime. (suid root)

As I built from CVS Snapshots using the Easy-Planeshift Build-Scripts (http://laanx.fragnetics.com/index.php?page=linux) because there where no other way to get Planeshift running under Gentoo for me, I edited the psrun-script to call commands using "artsdsp -m <command>". Since then all problems have gone, no matter whether I am using Alsa or OSS, aRts just handles everything fine. (As a matter of fact this method fixed alot of other sound issues on my machine, too! Without artsdsp I had alot of problems with eternal-lands, enemy-territory, quake3, briquolo and daitonin!)

Oh! One thing: I am using a 2.6.16 kernel with alsa compiled as modules with oss legacy support. (AC97 onboard!)

As all distros seem to be rather different, this method might not work for you at all, so no warrenty given! ;-)

Greetz

Yama