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