Linux Sound Problems
Linux Sound Problems
Hello all,
I'm running Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 on the following system:
AMD 1.4 Athlon
1 gb DDR Ram
64 mb nVidia AGP -- latest nVidia driver 7167
Creative Soundblaster PCI (shows up as: "Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI")
80 gb Maxtor HD
This system runs great and has had various version of linux on it with no problems. Both sound and graphics are excellent.
Okay, here's the problem, before the update to the latest version of BZFlag <Current version is: BZFlag client 2.0.0.20050128-STABLE-linux-gnu-SDL>, the sound was working fine and video was fast and clean. Now with this new version, the sound is a series of "short stutters" instead of nice clean sound as before. Video is still fine I tried some different setting in the options with no luck. I don't remember having to set anything before. I also tried running it as "root" from a terminal. Game comes up with normal sound (?) and now has low res video which is unacceptable. Is anyone else having sound problems in Linux, specifically Fedora Core 3? If you have and have it fixed, how did you do it?
Thanks!
Allen
--editied shortly after original post to include new kernel version and nvidia update--
I'm running Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 on the following system:
AMD 1.4 Athlon
1 gb DDR Ram
64 mb nVidia AGP -- latest nVidia driver 7167
Creative Soundblaster PCI (shows up as: "Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI")
80 gb Maxtor HD
This system runs great and has had various version of linux on it with no problems. Both sound and graphics are excellent.
Okay, here's the problem, before the update to the latest version of BZFlag <Current version is: BZFlag client 2.0.0.20050128-STABLE-linux-gnu-SDL>, the sound was working fine and video was fast and clean. Now with this new version, the sound is a series of "short stutters" instead of nice clean sound as before. Video is still fine I tried some different setting in the options with no luck. I don't remember having to set anything before. I also tried running it as "root" from a terminal. Game comes up with normal sound (?) and now has low res video which is unacceptable. Is anyone else having sound problems in Linux, specifically Fedora Core 3? If you have and have it fixed, how did you do it?
Thanks!
Allen
--editied shortly after original post to include new kernel version and nvidia update--
Para45
Yeah. I tried playing my music in the background only to find out that
a) it sounds wierd
and b) bzflag doesnt make any sounds.
However, my theory is that it only has to start w/ no sounds in the background. If it's up and running BEFORE there's background noise, then everything works just fine. IM still makes noise behind it and bzflag runs just fine. I'm thinking abotu setting some time of dellay to start playing, or wright a script to start xmms after 5 seconds or something.
I'll let everybody know when I actaully do this..right now I'm reconfiguring a whole bunch of stuff and its last on my list
a) it sounds wierd
and b) bzflag doesnt make any sounds.
However, my theory is that it only has to start w/ no sounds in the background. If it's up and running BEFORE there's background noise, then everything works just fine. IM still makes noise behind it and bzflag runs just fine. I'm thinking abotu setting some time of dellay to start playing, or wright a script to start xmms after 5 seconds or something.
I'll let everybody know when I actaully do this..right now I'm reconfiguring a whole bunch of stuff and its last on my list
1veedo (libcurl.so.2) I have version 3!
sound worked...
Okay....turned off the KDE sound system and the game sounds returned to normal. Now, when I re-enable the KDE sound system, my KDE sounds no longer play. Any idea on that one? I have checked and rechecked everything but can't find anything out of whack. On system startup, when KDE is starting, the start-up sound would play, but not anymore. I just don't see how that could have killed the KDE sounds. I can't even play the KDE sounds from the control center/sound section anymore.
Para45
Sometimes the sound is "stored" when other things are playing. Depending on the program. When I run XMMS, all my "log in, log out, sent message, recieved" etc just all go bling bling bling for an hour!
I read someware that if the "buffer" (I think) is too big, it'll just stop playing because new sounds are added to the end of this already too large quene of output. There's a command to clear it, but I have no idea what it is.
I read someware that if the "buffer" (I think) is too big, it'll just stop playing because new sounds are added to the end of this already too large quene of output. There's a command to clear it, but I have no idea what it is.
1veedo (libcurl.so.2) I have version 3!
workaround found
Okay...I found a workaround for getting my KDE system sounds back. In the Control Center > Sound & Multimedia > System Notifications I changed the player settings from the default to "use external player" and added this path: /usr/bin/play. Now it's working, but I still can't grasp why it stopped working just because I turned off the KDE sound system to play the darn game.
Para45
In Linux, everything is controlled by these configuration files. The OS, services, kernel, application, etc reads these files to determine how to behave. Most of these files are stored in /etc. For example, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is the configuration file for how the web server should act. FTP reads etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. And samba uses /etc/samba/smb.conf.
I'm guessing that your GUI manager (Sound & Multimedia > System Notification) altered the same file that you initially altered to turn the sound off.
I'm guessing that your GUI manager (Sound & Multimedia > System Notification) altered the same file that you initially altered to turn the sound off.
1veedo (libcurl.so.2) I have version 3!