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On 10/13/05, Robert Morris <robertm@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:48 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> > First I think I should start out saying that I don't have too much of |
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> > a clue when it comes to Linux audio. Now that that's out of the way, I |
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> > have a box that works at the moment with ALSA + ESD + Gstreamer + |
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> > Gnome that allows me to do software mixing and all my sound works. The |
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> > problem I am having is that I have this constant crackle when I'm |
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> > listening to anything. I know its not EMF because the sound was clean |
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> > when I had Windoze on the box. Its not so loud that it makes listening |
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> > to anything unpleasant but it is quite annoying. |
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> > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this? I saw on some |
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> > of the newsgroups that people say this is an ESD issue but nobody |
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> > seems to have a good solution. The card is some on board Intel High |
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> > Def audio thing that Albatron ships with their mobos (can get |
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> > specifics if needed). Any help would be appreciated. |
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> > -Mike |
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> It's the gstreamer-alsa plugin that is probably causing the crackle. |
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> There are several bug reports in Gnome bugzilla. If you are 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 downgrade |
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> the gstreamer-alsa plugin or switch to using OSS instead of ALSA (which |
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> is what I did). If want to do this in Gnome, go to the Multimedia |
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> Systems Selector in the preferences menu, and switch the 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 ALSA. |
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Now I guess my next question would have to be is there a way to remove the |
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dmix middleman and still get software based mixing? Also would putting in |
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Jack potentially fix the problem? |
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-Mike |
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________________________________ |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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