Hi, My point is that the Gnome ESD sound system does not work correctly for me in 9.0 RC3.
Simply running esd from the command line produces digital noise which I guess is the ESD start tune. It suggests a timming problem. ESD works fine for me in MDK 8.2 on the same hardware using ALSA drivers. Regards, Dean. On Saturday 21 September 2002 8:47 pm, you wrote: > 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.
