kde audio problem

[Hans Grapenthin]

Hi

did you set" realtime priority" under    
 KDE Control Center - Sound System - General ?

Regards Hans


Am Montag, 21. März 2005 15:44 schrieb Rosenstrauch, David:
> Hi.  Posted this last week, and still haven't been able to find a solution
> for this.  Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> DR
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rosenstrauch, David [mailto:david.rosenstrauch at csfb.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:02 AM
> > To: kde-multimedia at kde.org
> > Subject: kde audio problem
> >
> >
> > Having a KDE-related audio problem and was wondering if
> > anyone might help.
> >
> > I've never had audio working on my box before, since it has
> > one of those
> > lame-o Dell proprietary versions of the SB Live sound card,
> > and the alsa
> > module for that card (snd-emu10k1x) was not packaged with a
> > kernel until
> > 2.6.11.  But now that I've got 2.6.11 on that box, I can now
> > use that card.
> > All well and good.  However, for some reason, the KDE sound
> > system (i.e., arts
> > and/or akodelib) don't play my MP3 files well - particularly
> > on <= 128kbps
> > files.  The playback sounds "choppy" (for lack of a better word).
> >
> > Obviously that sounds like it's a general sound issue (or an
> > issue with that
> > wacky sound card), but it's not (or at least not by itself).
> > This definitely
> > is a KDE issue, because when I try to play the same mp3 files
> > using XMMS, or
> > when I try to play streaming media in Amarok using the xine
> > engine instead of
> > arts, the problem goes away.  I don't know if this is a KDE
> > 3.4 issue or not,
> > since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.11 and KDE 3.4 at the same
> > time, and thus never
> > had sound working under KDE 3.3.
> >
> > Googling hasn't turned up much, particularly since I don't
> > really know what
> > the problem is and so don't know quite what to google on.
> > (Plus the terms I
> > do know to google on are fairly generic and thus turn up lots
> > of false hits.)
> >
> > Box is running:
> > kernel 2.6.11(.3)
> > KDE 3.4
> > sound modules loaded:  snd-emu10k1x, snd-pcm-oss
> > xorg
> >
> > Any help appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DR
>
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