this is solved, it was a sound issue, as i partly suspected...to fix what i encountered, i simply took the slider for the number of sound tracks played simultaneously down to 4 instead of the high number it was, and it fixed the problem... perhaps a proprietary linux sound driver for my sound card would enable me to bring it back up for a richer sound experience, but im not sure how to do that...but as it is now this is fine...
for reference here is a link to the ticket so the devs can point people here or to the ticket link for reference if they encounter the same issue...
https://bitbucket.org/ryzom/ryzomcore/issue/81/particle-system-pr oblem-maybe-sound-effect
for reference here is a link to the ticket so the devs can point people here or to the ticket link for reference if they encounter the same issue...
https://bitbucket.org/ryzom/ryzomcore/issue/81/particle-system-pr oblem-maybe-sound-effect