On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:58:08PM +0100, Dean Jenkins wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed RC3 and I'm having problems with sound. > > I have a via686 AC97 motherboard sound chip using an Athlon 1.2 Ghz. > > I used Mandrake Control Centre to change the sound driver from OSS to ALSA. > Curriously the pull down option in the sound config program only showed the > OSS driver but when I said OK it changed the modules.conf to the ALSA driver > and deleted the OSS driver !! > > Anyway, if I run Tuxracer, the sound is OK. > > If I run in KDE aRts then sound is reasonable although does breakup ( this > occurs on MDK 8.2 too ) > > If I run in Gnome ESD then sound is just digital noise. ESD works in MDK 8.2 > on this hardware. > > If I run Realplayer then the start-up sound is OK ( Realplayer set to OSS > driver ) but if I try to playback a .ram then sound is digital noise. In MDK > 8.2 Realplayer works OK. > > Apart from sound problems, RC3 looks good. I notice RC3 found the firewire > chips on my motherboard and installed a driver. Shame I don't have any > firewire devices to test it !!
I've found that this happens when combining apps that want to use arts and apps that want to use ESD. My solution is to set arts not to stop running and use soundwrapper on everything that uses sound. This basically ensures that all the sound is going through arts. esd apps end up running under artsdsp and work properly. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
