Re: Poor sound in GNOME
Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out that the three sounds in the gtk-events folder (clicked.wav, activate.wav, and toggled.wav) have the clicky staticky sound, but none of the other WAV files I played do. So I think the gtk-events sounds just suck, and I'll replace them. - Kris Jonathan Lupa wrote: On Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:30 AM, Kristopher Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest any possible fixes? DISCLAIMER: All of this is to the best of my knowledge which is somewhat limited, but I'm sure someone will step up to correct me if I'm wrong! =) I had a problem similar to this very recently with my SB AWE32 PnP. It turns out that the driver was having problems allocating DMA buffers because low address memory had become so fragmented. Since I have a decent amount of RAM (128M), I recompiled the kernel to load up the DMA buffers at load time and maintain them. This can be done 2 ways: 1. If you compiled sound support as a module, you need to pass the parameter dmabuf=1 to the module when it loads. Read the man page on update-modules for more information about how to get that into /etc/conf.modules. 2. If you compiled sound support directly into the kernel, there is an option in the sound menu to preserve DMA buffers. mark it Y and recompile. CAVEAT 1: This may not really be the problem you are looking at. If not, I can't think of anything to try. =( BONUS: Even if it is not, if you have a reasonable amount of memory, it isn't going to hurt anything by doing this. CAVEAT 2: If you are using the kernel autoloader to load sound support, that may not be the best idea. I would either stic k it in /etc/modules, or compile support in as necessary. Good Luck -Jonathan Lupa ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor sound in GNOME
When sounds play when I'm running GNOME, the sounds have a staticky click or pop at the end of them. I assume that this is some problem with ESD, but I'm not sure. The bad sounds don't happen when I'm not running GNOME. They also didn't happen when I used GNOME with Red Hat on this machine. I have a SoundBlaster AWE64 sound card. Can anyone suggest any possible fixes? - KDJ
RE: Poor sound in GNOME
On Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:30 AM, Kristopher Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest any possible fixes? DISCLAIMER: All of this is to the best of my knowledge which is somewhat limited, but I'm sure someone will step up to correct me if I'm wrong! =) I had a problem similar to this very recently with my SB AWE32 PnP. It turns out that the driver was having problems allocating DMA buffers because low address memory had become so fragmented. Since I have a decent amount of RAM (128M), I recompiled the kernel to load up the DMA buffers at load time and maintain them. This can be done 2 ways: 1. If you compiled sound support as a module, you need to pass the parameter dmabuf=1 to the module when it loads. Read the man page on update-modules for more information about how to get that into /etc/conf.modules. 2. If you compiled sound support directly into the kernel, there is an option in the sound menu to preserve DMA buffers. mark it Y and recompile. CAVEAT 1: This may not really be the problem you are looking at. If not, I can't think of anything to try. =( BONUS: Even if it is not, if you have a reasonable amount of memory, it isn't going to hurt anything by doing this. CAVEAT 2: If you are using the kernel autoloader to load sound support, that may not be the best idea. I would either stic k it in /etc/modules, or compile support in as necessary. Good Luck -Jonathan Lupa ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
