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Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4



On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:47:49PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> On Saturday 14 April 2001 04:35, Steven Hanley wrote:
> > As for sound, you just want the sound enabvled with the AWACS (mac sound)
> > driver enabled. I have it compiled in not as a module (I dont know if it
> > works as a module or not) and have no problems with sound, I can play any
> > sort of sound with no skips or problems at any time.
> 
> Okay, the KDE sound server aRts produced real bad noise (like radio static 
> but even worse). Then I changed the sampling rate to 8 bit and it worked with 
> the effect that mp3s out of the KDE media player sometimes click and pop. 
> mpg123 seems to play mp3s fine.

 Yuck.  mpg123 plays fine when it can get at /dev/dsp directly.  If you turn
off the kde sound crap, you should be able to use sound programs that don't
have endian bugs to get 16 bit sound (and without clicks or other noise).
This works on my 9500-based desktop.

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