Re: [Openvortex-dev] It Works! almost...

[Ryan]

Well, things sound ok now. Maybe it's just intermittent. What kind of
settings are there to tweak with the driver that might affect sound output
quality?

The noises I was hearing (while moving the mouse around) were real quiet
and I can only hear them if I turn my speakers up real high. If I keep the
volumes set right on the card and on the speakers, I can't even hear them.
Maybe "popping" isn't quite the right term for it, it's more like little
bursts of static sound that are very faint. If I'm playing other music, I
can't even hear it.

Thanks so much.

Ryan

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Manuel broke aplay
> in favor of fixing a bug having to do with period size.  I guess aplay
> tries to use periods of non-integer size, and the driver only does
> integers, so it fails.  At least, thats what the mail I've got saved
> says.  I don't have a commit message to prove that those changes were
> actually made, but I think they were.
>
> But you're not crazy.  Aplay doesn't work for me either, not that I have
> a reason to use it.  I don't know about those popping sounds though...
> it doesn't sound quite like anything I've experienced.
>
>  - Gordon
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 18:56, Simon Koch wrote:
>> Sorry, Ryan, I accidentally clicked "Reply" instead of "Reply to Mailing
>> List"
>>
>> I have an 8830.  I don't get any popping noises, but I have this same
>> problem
>> with aplay (and any other program playing sound via ALSA).  The error
>> occurs
>> somewhere in snd_hw_params_set_buffer_time_near.  I get this error with
>> 2.4
>> and 2.6 kernels.
>>
>> I've tried tracing it through aplay, alsa-lib, and the driver itself,
>> and my
>> best guess is it has something do do with setting dma on the card.  I'm
>> new
>> to kernel debugging, though, so it's hard to be sure.  Running gdb on
>> aplay
>> does tell me that err == -22, if that means something to anyone.
>>
>> On a more positive note, it works brilliantly when I use OSS-emulation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>         Simon
>>
>> On Monday 08 September 2003 21:26, Ryan wrote:
>> > Thanks so much to everyone who helped me get up and running. I've
>> > successfully compiled all the necessary stuff and it appears to be
>> working
>> > (at least xmms with the alsa-xmms output pluging functions)! However,
>> I'm
>> > having two problems:
>> >
>> > 1) aplay gives me an error messages:
>> > # aplay -v /usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav
>> > Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit
>> Little
>> > Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
>> > aplay: aplay.c:836: set_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
>> > Aborted by signal Aborted...
>> >
>> > What does that mean? Couldn't find anything while googleing...
>> >
>> > 2) Sound problems - I can hear popping sometimes when different
>> actions
>> > happen on my computer (like the taskbar popping open). Some songs that
>> I
>> > listen to seem to have little pops here and there that make it sound
>> like
>> > I'm listening to them underwater (or something like that). Are these
>> > problems with my settings? how can I help to debug/fix these problems?
>> >
>> > Thanks again. My compliments to the developers. :)
>> >
>> > Ryan
>
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