Sound is very out of my realm, but here goes... I knew I was going to install Mandrake 8.1 this weekend anyway, so I was waiting to see if that magically fixed my problem before changing kernels. It didn't completely, but it did help. Sorta.
I was running Mandrake 8.0 (2.4.3 kernel) and as of Sautrday I have Mandrake 8.1 (2.4.8 kernel). I have an onboard creative labs PCI deal that uses the esonique es1371 module. Off the bat: Changing the sound settings in the KDE control center did nothing for me in 8.0. I could switch from 8 bit, 16 bit, automatic and nothing would happen. Same with the audio buffer rate. In 8.1 I was able to dramatically increase the quality through those settings. In both 8.0 and 8.1, if I select alsa, I get no sound, Open Sound System "works." However, my sound in Windows still totally KICKS BUTT over this 8.1 crap. I can get a much higher quality at higher volumes in Windows, something very important to me. 8.1 still loops the last 1/2 second not a big deal to me, but it's there. I really don't care. Well, just now I rebooted 8.1 for the first time since I installed Saturday (it's a dual boot machine and I needed the other OS) and ever since, everytime I start X, the sound server stops due to "cpu overload." This happens even when I adjust the audio buffer rate completely in favor of low cpu usage. It also occurs with barely anything running and plenty of cpu available. It reccurs when I restart the sound server. I was trying to avoid reverting to the 2.2 kernel, but I don't really need 2.4 on this machine, and if Ben says 2.2 works, well... I can't live without my stereo. Thanks for bringing it up, Ben. (and if anyone made it this far down cares to explain the practical differences between ALSA and OSS, I'd love to know) -Mjo On Saturday 06 October 2001 10:18 am, you wrote: > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Mandrake 8.0 audio problems > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:13:40 -0400 (EDT) > From: Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > At the Tue 2 Oct 2001 meeting in Nashua, Martha Jo had asked me about > audio problems on Mandrake 8.0. I have experienced similar problems on my > Mandrake 8.0 system at home. Specific symptoms were: > > 1. "Scratchy" or "static" during sound playback > 2. Last 1/2 second or so of samples being repeated (looping) once at end > 3. Anything using esound/esd under GNOME was erratic or froze completely > > One thing I recommended trying was switching kernels: Mandrake 8.0 uses a > 2.4 kernel by default. Tonight, I was curious, so I checked, and Mandrake > had installed a 2.2 kernel (from package "kernel22-2.2.19-10mdk"). I > booted that instead, and the problems went away. > > This isn't what I would call an ideal solution, but I figured I would > toss it out. Hope it helps someone. > > Cheers, ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
