Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-14 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Matt, FWIW, I had similar troubles with my integrated VT8233 AC97 (rev 80) with both the 2.4.20 OSS and pre-0.9.2 ALSA drivers. I ended up sticking with ALSA and the performance has improved in each rev. I'm currently using the 0.9.4 ALSA driver and am now happy enough that I've stopped consi

Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Hunt
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:54:02PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Hi Matt, > > FWIW, I had similar troubles with my integrated VT8233 AC97 (rev 80) with > both the 2.4.20 OSS and pre-0.9.2 ALSA drivers. I ended up sticking with > ALSA and the performance has improved in each rev. I'm currently us

Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
What about using a sound daemon, such as artsd? you can start artsd, then run xmms with it's output set to arts (install xmmsarts first!). Artsd may prevent this end-of-song problem, because you can tell it to not release the soundcard between songs (set the -s flag to a high value). Thus the sound

VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-11 Thread Matt Elder
Problem: I am having trouble setting up my VIA soundcard. Whenever I attempt to play a sound file, I either get massive skipping, skipping at the end of the file, or no sound at all. I think this has something to do with the sound card's buffer - perhaps it's not getting flushed properly, but