Re: Sound problems...

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

actually alsa can do software mixing as well, and if the internet
wasnt being abused here (im at a computer gaming event, someone is
pulling down a game mod) i would link you.

just do a google for alsa software mixing

Casey


On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:26:39 +0000, Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net> wrote:
>  Well, by default if your using Fedora, which it sounds like. GNOME should
> use ALSA. Another sound server gnome can use is ESD
>  personally I prefer ESD over alsa because it allows for more than one
> application to use the sound device at a time. For example, GAIM 
>  would normally use ALSA, but you can change gaims preferences to use ESD
> instead, you can do the same with XMMS, so then whenever you 
>  start both the programs, instead of one locking the sound device they will
> both connect to it though a program called esddsp and it will pipe their
>  output to the sound device. 
>  As for the low quality of sound, that probably because you have PCM turned
> up to high. The two main audio controls on most sound cards are
>  Master and PCM. 
>  If PCM gets turned up to high things have a tennancy to become very very
> very ugly. 
>  So I would suggest, setting PCM to about 30-40. And set Master to about
> 80-90 and then udjusting your actuall speakers accordingly. Then 
>  the gnome sounds should sound less ugly.
>  
>      ----- Kyle Pointer
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:50 -0600, Ken Keefe wrote: 
>  So I think there is something wrong with gnome's sound server. If I use
> System Setting -> Soundcard Detection, the little guitar riff plays
> perfectly crystal clear. Also, all of my ogg files play with no distortion.
> I have turned on gnome's sound server to play sounds at various events like
> start up or shut down and the sound quality is awful. It is very distorted.
> Also, I just happened to start Tux Racer to test out my new video driver and
> it turns out that that game has a soundtrack! Hmm, never heard that before.
> Well, the music in Tux Racer is also really bad. So what is going on? This
> is probably some mixer setting somewhere that is set to high, but I checked
> alsamixer and gnome sound mixer (the one in the system tray) and I have set
> them both to around 70%. Also, does anyone have any suggestions for where I
> can find some sound schemes to use with gnome? Thanks, Ken - To unsubscribe,
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