Since the last update I've found that my sound coming through ESD is
very crackly and bad. ALSA seems just fine and when I play anything
through aplay it sounds perfect.
It is possible that I've just not noticed the sound being this bad
before, but I'm fairly certain I would have. GAIM's receive wav has
always been annoying, but now it sounds like its being dragged
accross a cheese grator :) Same with anything using sound via
Firefox and the flash plugin. I did read the previous thread on ESD
sound being bad on the list here, but at the time that came out I
wasn't having any problems.
/proc/asound/cards
0 [SB0400 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0,
serial:0x10011102) at 0xe800, irq 5
/proc/asound/modules
0 snd_emu10k
I take that back, it may not be ESD after all. I've been
experimenting with dmix and if I do a :
aplay -D plug:dmix receive.wav
Its very crackily and bad. However:
aplay receive.wav
plays fine.
I confirmed that dmix is the culprit here. Its set as default in
.asoundrc in my user home directory. The above test I did was as root,
so the normal aplay without specifying dmix was what played fine.
However running that same command as a user gives me similar crackily
output.
The reason this appears to have happened since the last update is dmix
was set as the default.
alsa-lib-1.0.9rc2-1
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* Fri Apr 22 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.0.9rc2-1
- updated to 1.0.9rc2
- add ainit tool
- dmix is now default pcm device
I'm going to check for existing bugs on this. Sorry to spam the list with this stuff. Can I ask what the default Fedora was using before this was however? I tried removing my .asoundrc and of course it just got rewritten :)
Thanks!
Caerie