Me-1, Linux-0

[beezlebubsbum]

Yes, I finally did it!!! Some of you Linuxfoo regulars may be familiar with the story of how the sound on my computer wasn't working under Linux and the new 2.6 kernel. Well, I finally got it working! It turns out one of the settings were incorrect. I had to go to the options and change the frequency from 48000hz to 47999hz. That got the sound working. However, I still have jumpy playback on mp3's. It's weird, because games such as frozen bubble, the sound works properly!

[ZennouRyuu]

Hey try setting the arts daemon to use real-time priority (the same place you changed your frequency) and also if your using XMMS it can use real-time priority as well.

[beezlebubsbum]

thanks for that! I'll give it a try soon.

[MorphiusFaydal]

how do i do that ALSA?

im using Gentoo and the 2.6.7 (Development Sources) kernel...

[ZennouRyuu]

Its already part of the kernel ^_^ just enable it

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Device Drivers>>>>>Sound>>>>>Alsa [Pick appropriately]
Exit
make && make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage
------Reboot-------

You will also need to follow the alsa howto that gentoo provides about setting up the alsa-utils http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml#alsa-utils

[MorphiusFaydal]

i followed that guide....

and my sounds just queue up when i have XMMS playing... (do you know what 40 "msg recieved" gaim sounds is like?)

i stopped when i got the bit about enabling MIDI.. so...

[ZennouRyuu]

YOu need a mixer

either use arts as a software mixer in KDE, or use a hardware mixer (a SB Live! goes for like $7 on eBay)