Re: Poor sound in GNOME
Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out that the three sounds in the gtk-events
folder (clicked.wav, activate.wav, and toggled.wav) have the clicky staticky
sound, but none of the other WAV files I played do. So I think the gtk-events
sounds just suck, and I'll replace them.
- Kris
Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:30 AM, Kristopher Johnson
> [SMTP:nosleep@atl.mediaone.net] wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest any possible fixes?
>
> DISCLAIMER: All of this is "to the best of my knowledge" which is somewhat
> limited, but I'm sure someone will step up to correct me if I'm wrong! =)
>
> I had a problem similar to this very recently with my SB AWE32 PnP. It
> turns out that the driver was having problems allocating DMA buffers because
> low address memory had become so fragmented. Since I have a decent amount of
> RAM (128M), I recompiled the kernel to load up the DMA buffers at load time
> and maintain them.
>
> This can be done 2 ways:
> 1. If you compiled sound support as a module, you need to pass the
> parameter dmabuf=1 to the module when it loads. Read the man page on
> update-modules for more information about how to get that into
> /etc/conf.modules.
> 2. If you compiled sound support directly into the kernel, there is
> an option in the sound menu to preserve DMA buffers. mark it Y and
> recompile.
>
> CAVEAT 1: This may not really be the problem you are looking at. If not, I
> can't think of anything to try. =(
>
> BONUS: Even if it is not, if you have a reasonable amount of memory, it
> isn't going to hurt anything by doing this.
>
> CAVEAT 2: If you are using the kernel autoloader to load sound support, that
> may not be the best idea. I would either stic k it in /etc/modules, or
> compile support in as necessary.
>
> Good Luck
>
> -Jonathan Lupa
> ~
> jjlupa@jamdata.net
>
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