creative audigy 2 zs skips a lot [solved]

[flarefox]

I was installing mandriva for a friend on his pc. Everything works wonderfully except the sound. It is always skipping when we run all players except mplayer. Mplayer makes the video go less than smoothly. He has an amd athlon 64-bit machine if that matters. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

 

Thanks in advance!

[devries]

What other players are that? If they use arts you could try a bigger cache. Open the kde control center, audio, soundsystem, buffer. If they don't use arts adjust the appropriate cache option.

[scarecrow]

Or you can try setting artsd (from kcontrol) to run with real time priority.

Edited February 26, 2006 by scarecrow

[flarefox]

What other players are that? If they use arts you could try a bigger cache. Open the kde control center, audio, soundsystem, buffer. If they don't use arts adjust the appropriate cache option.

 

I have it as realtime priority by default and that doesn't do much. It improved a bit when I set it to as large as possible for the cache size, but it still skips. The players that screw up are anything that uses arts and also anything xine based. The mplayer based ones run fairly well, though. I can't figure it out. I tried that then I went in and looked at his modules. Here's modprobe.conf:

remove snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }

alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

 

I haven't ever used the remove command in a modprobe.conf file before so I didn't know if that was right. Anyone have a better idea of what the problem is?

[flarefox]

Too late. :( He gave up on linux and reformatted. Thanks for the help you were able to give me, though! That did make a big difference!

[Gannin]

Without knowing more about the problem I can't really say, but it was probably an alsa or oss issue.