On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:24 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 10/13/05, Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's the gstreamer-alsa plugin that is probably causing the > crackle. > There are several bug reports in Gnome bugzilla. If you are > using dmix, > you might want to look at this one: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689 > > There are a few others, but the general solution is to either > downgrade > the gstreamer-alsa plugin or switch to using OSS instead of > ALSA (which > is what I did). If want to do this in Gnome, go to the > Multimedia > Systems Selector in the preferences menu, and switch the > Default Output > Sink to OSS. > > > OSS does it too, even worse than ESD. The only one that seems clean is > ALSA. Now I guess my next question would have to be is there a way to > remove the dmix middleman and still get software based mixing? Also > would putting in Jack potentially fix the problem? > > -Mike I've never used Jack, so I am not sure if that's a solution or not. When you switch from ESD to OSS, did you still have /etc/init.d/esound running? You may need to stop that service in order to make sure it is completely out of the loop when you try and use OSS (not 100% sure on this though). There is also a thread on the forums with some options here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347016.html Robert -- [email protected] mailing list
