At Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:17:28 +0300 (EEST), Meelis Roos wrote: > > Yesterday I struggled with Skype on IBM X20. This laptop has CS4281 > onboard that didn't work in 2.6.16 but is working in 2.6.17-rc*. Mplayer > and most other applications work OK, with both native ALSA and > snd_pcm_oss emulation. > > But Skype had very distorted and chopped sound. Some googling showed > that people use the following two lines to change (increase?) the > buffer sizes in OSS emulation to get it to work. These 2 lines fixed it > for me too: > > echo "skype 256 65535 direct block" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss > echo "skype 256 65535 direct block" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss > > But this seems to be needed only for some sound drivers, other work wine > out of the box (there's been a lot of discussion about this in Skype > forum). > > Leaving aside the weak sound support in Skype, why do some drivers need > increasing the buffers and some don't? cs4281 has a hardware limitation that it has only up to 2 periods (fragments) in the buffer. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
