titous09 Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 (edited) whenever i have music playing in the background, it will skip and crackle when i do other things than just listen to the music. like right now it will crackle a bit while i'm typing. i can especially notice it if i scroll with my mouse in openoffice. the only things i have open at that time are xmms, 2 konqueror windos, and openoffice. anybody have any suggestions? specs on the comp: 1.3 AMD Athlon 256MB RAM Mandrake 10.0 running KDE 3.2 Edited June 23, 2004 by titous09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 You're probably running ALSA and using the OSS output plugin for XMMS, which relies on emulation and often gives this problem. Try switching to the ALSA XMMS plugin instead (you might have to download / urpmi it - haven't used Mandy 10 myself yet). Also try switching Desktop Environments (Gnome?) and see if the problem persists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 does it happen in other players? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 are you using xmms to play these files? if so go to Preferences > Output Plugin > ALSA then click on the Configure/Preferences button. Then go to the Advanced settings tab and uncheck MMAP mode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titous09 Posted June 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 (edited) okay i got the ALSA plugin installed and have disabled MMAP mode but it still does it. now what? Edited June 28, 2004 by titous09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 now what? answer my question :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titous09 Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 k, then what soundcard? Is it onboard? Do you have a latency timer setting in the bios? If one is available have you tried the oss driver> alsa pretty much sucks for most soundcards, IMO. Are you running the music from the hd, or cd's? If hd, is it on the same hd as the install or on another ide channel? Does the same happen on cd's or another ide channel? What do your hd settings look like? Notice any slowness compared to other os's? (search the board for hdparm, and be careful) put; echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, reboot, and see if it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 u r also running kde so in kcontrol>Sound, what are your settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 okay i got the ALSA plugin installed and have disabled MMAP mode but it still does it. now what? ok sometimes there is a mixer that it's volume is up which causes crackling noises. Use kmix or aumix to adjust the volume (mute) of all the mixers except pcm and master. This took care of it in my case. after that i just went back and enabled the mixers I needed (cdrom and line-in) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 this is with alsa btw, not OSS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titous09 Posted July 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 (edited) k, then what soundcard?Is it onboard? Do you have a latency timer setting in the bios? If one is available have you tried the oss driver> alsa pretty much sucks for most soundcards, IMO. Are you running the music from the hd, or cd's? If hd, is it on the same hd as the install or on another ide channel? Does the same happen on cd's or another ide channel? What do your hd settings look like? Notice any slowness compared to other os's? (search the board for hdparm, and be careful) put; echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, reboot, and see if it helps. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> it's an onboard soundcard music is run from HD, only 1 HD also does it when playing off of CD no latency timer settings in BIOS u r also running kde so in kcontrol>Sound, what are your settings? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> buffer is as large as possible. note: i tried to install some AC97 audio drivers and it still didn't fix it. what can i do now? Edited July 12, 2004 by titous09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Hmm, switching it to alsa for me helped it also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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