Re: Alsa Problems with nforce4 AC97
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:18:42AM -0500, Mike wrote:
> i'm using the intel driver with my gigabyte nforce4 board. Sound is
> usually ok, but.
>
> 1. /dev/dsp only allows one process. I thought alsa dmixed this?
No alsa CAN dmix things, if you configure that in .asoundrc. See
www.alsa-project.org for info on setting up a software mixer in
asoundrc.
> 2. I get alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.135 msecs. resetting stream when
> using mplayer
I have never looked into what those messages mean.
> 3. esound runs very badly, crashes when i turn it on in sound preferences
> in gnome.
You mean esound ever runs well?
> 4. totem-gstreamer is out of sync when playing mp4/mp3 videos.
>
> I've tried setting multimedia system to esd, oss, and alsa with no avail.
> The only fix I found for mplayer was to use -ao alsa:mmap
>
> Any ideas? I'm using the latest sid.
Not sure really. The only machine I actually use sound on has an sb
live, which of course has hardware mixing of many many channels and has
no such problems.
Len Sorensen
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