At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:40 +0000, Jason Harvey wrote: > > The Source wrote: > > You can't hear desktop sounds because they always use pulseaudio no > > matter what sound system you select as default. For me pulseaudio > > plays first sound fine after start, others are corrupt along with > > sound from all other apps. I'll post hw_params later. Also pulseaudio > > tends to crash often with this driver so I suppose your problem is the > > same. > Can confirm that once pulse (on FC9 at least) gets involved it sounds > terrible. > > I worked out that I had removed a package pulseaudio-esound-compat at > some point in the past and never realised that it contains the symlinks > that gets Gnome to start the pulse server. > Once that was fixed the desktop effects started working but only out of > my USB headset... and nothing I can find in the gui lets me do anything > about it. In many cases, the pulse problem comes from the in accurate DMA position calculation. PA is often too aggressively updating buffers. > mplayer and firefox/flash sound terrible, very tinny and scratchy. > This is with the base_rate=48000 option set in modprobe.conf Do you mean a regression with 48kHz in comparison with 96kHz? Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel