On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:14:45 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 03:16 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 02:59 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > > > Is there something in /proc/asound that would allow me to answer that > > > question? Or is there some generic GNOME and/or RB setting for telling > > > it to use OSS emulation (/dev/dspX) vs. "native" ALSA devices that I can > > > look for? > > > > Ah ha! I fired up gconf-editor and lo and behold > > system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink was set to "esdsink". I changed > > it to "osssink" and it sounds beautiful now.. great. Thanks for the > > direction! I suppose I should look into the benefits of running esound > > and esdsink instead. > > > > Still segfaults pretty frequently, but that appears to be a separate > > issue which I'll try to isolate now. > > FYI... at least one class of segfaults were attributable to the fact > that I was using an older version of gstreamer-plugins-mp3 (0.8.5) from > livna. > > Installing > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpm.livna.org/fedora/3.91/i386/RPMS.testing/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3.91.i386.rpm > > and rerunning gst-register (and restarting RB) prevents RB from > segfaulting when attempting to play some mp3 songs. > > Very good. It should not be necessary to run gst-register, since the package does it in its post-install scriptlet. For a long time. -- Fedora Core release 4 (still from Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1366_FC4 loadavg: 1.00 1.08 1.35