On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:06:26 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment:
> You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an > actual problem, but here goes :-) > > Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since installing/upgrading > to 9.2? I have two systems with this problem, one using the stock > 2.4.22-21 kernel and AC97 sound and one using -mm with i810 sound, both > using ARTS. artswrapper is suid, "run sound server with realtime > priority" is checked in kcontrol (note that I actually use XFce4, not > KDE). > > XMMS is of course the app where I notice the problem (since GAIM is the > only other program that is allowed to make noise and it doesn't make > much). On stock-21/AC97 desktop, the "use realtime priority" flag is > set, and true to the warning, I've experienced a system lockup under > heavy load when XMMS was playing. On the 21-mm/i810 system, XMMS's "use > realtime priority" flag is not checked (system lockups are more annoying > on a laptop when there's no network accessibility). > > I don't recall if the AC97 desktop is on OSS or ALSA, but the i810 > laptop is on OSS since the 9.2 upgrade; it was rock-solid and generally > perfect on ALSA for 9.1, but with 9.2 ALSA sounds were drowned in static > and frequently played at the wrong frequency. > > Any ideas? I'm sure I don't need to mention how annoying choppy music > and system lockups are, especially when I'm the only hardcore Linux > fanatic^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huser in the building. Funny you should mention! I have been playing with the 2.6 test 9.4 kernel, and have noticed it even more. I have 9.2 Cooker (2.4.22-21mdk) , which is really just 9.2 since the freeze has been on. This is a desktop with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card (cs46xx), 5.1 Dolby Digital to a kickin' set of Altec Lancing speakers / subwoofer. I _can_ rattle the window! but that is another story. I'm all ALSA. I can stream 128k audio off the net with no problems, but I have some oggs that get funky and choppy, but not always. No lockups at all. There are some issues with gstreamer-alsa based players, and ChangeLog shows fixs have just released. I've played with a bunch of music manager software - it is uses gstreamer I have a serious sound problems; if it uses xmms, then the minor issue mentioned, if it uses alsaplayer, smooth as silk. Anyone else? Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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