More info on this problem. I found two applications that make this problem almost unbeareable, if I run mplayer with oss output pluging, then the sound click/pops all the time and it's the same if I run tribes2. I think what might be common to those two application is that they probably use short fragment sizes which this card might not be able to deal with correctly. Altough whatever it is, it gets amplified by those two applications. Xine seems to be fine altough I'll get a dropout every 30 sec or so just like in xmms. Any recommendations?
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Christian Lambert wrote: | | Hi, | | I just bought an audiophile 2496 card to replace my | ensoniq 1371 card. | | I loaded the alsa 0.9beta12 drivers succesfully, but | when I play some audio I get drop-outs every 30 seconds | or so, the audio seems to quickly fade-out/fade-in. | I think it becomes worse if the harddisk or CPU is busy | when I'm surfing the web for example at the same time. | | I'm wondering if other people have seen this or not. | From what I was reading, this looks like a popular sound | card. I looked at the alsa mailing list archive and | also usenet and couldn't find anything similar. | | The card share some IRQ with other devices, but this is | how I had it setup before on my ensoniq and I never | had this problem. I don't think it would be possible | to assign it a dedicated IRQ with my motherboard (asus CU2CL). | | I have dma turned on for my IDE drives, and they run in | the default 16 bit mode. I saw something in oss/commercial about | turning 32 bit mode on for those cards but I didn't try it yet | because last time I tried that, one of my Western Digital drives | started to get some ide errors, but I won't go there now :) | | Also, I'm assuming that it's normal that there is no | other mixer available than the envy24control program | which means that in xmms for example, I can't ajust | the volume other than going to my receiver or using the | envy24control program? | | As a final question, I would like to avoid software resampling | so is there any setting I can set to make sure the internal | sampling rate is "unlocked" which means that the application will | open and the sampling rate in the hardware will match the software | so that I get the best quality at all time. | | Those are the two only issues that I encoutered so far | but I'm still testing. I would hate to have to go back | to my ensoniq card, I hope I can really find what's causing | this. | | I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18 | | Let me know | | | _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
