On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:47:04 +0100
robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I pulled the lastest CVS from sourceforge and compiled, what happens is that 
> music is played for a couple of secs (too fast) and then stops or blocks 
> using "aplay".
> 
> Whenever I start KDE, the opening songs takes a lot of time to play, it plays 
> only when I load the processor -

you mean when the kernel decides the processor has nothing better to do?

Btw, in the KDE Control Centre -> Sound -> Soundserver under 'general' you
can select 'real time priority' and under 'sound I/O' you can set the 
'Audio buffer size'.

> so when the processor is busy, a little 
> sound is heard and this stays the whole time till the whole sound has been 
> played (might take about 2 mins), so I do hear the entire sound, but only get 
> bits and pieces at a time.
> 
> This sounds :) like a timing problem. Does de snd-intel8x0 module have 
> certain extra parameters? Is there any way?

>From my old 0.5.11 INSTALL file in the alsa-driver directory:

  Note: some i815 chips have different clocks.  if you encounter
  too fast playback, add module option "snd_ac97_clock=41194".

> regards,
> robert
> 
> P.S. also tried the open sound drivers, they behave simular but report an 
> intel845 driver.
> 
> - i miss my sound -
> 
> modules.conf:
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> # ALSA portion
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> # OSS/Free portion - card #0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

    -Frans

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