Luca Pireddu wrote:

> Hi everyone. I just upgraded my computer from an Athlon on an abit kt7a
> (using a via chipset) to an Athlon 64 using the nForce 3 chipset.
> Everything
> else in the computer has staying the same. Ever since the upgrade I've been
> having sound problems with my Sound Blaster Live. I used to use the OSS
> emu10k1 kernel driver (2.4.26) and things worked wonderfully.
>
> Things started going bad after the upgrade. At first, some applications
> outputting to OSS would freeze and play the first 0.5 seconds of a the sound
> clip in an endless loop. The apps affected included xine, realplayer. XMMS
> and mplayer worked fine. Other means of playback (e.g. artsd) also worked.
> I couldn't record audio any more. The applications appeared to be stuck
> waiting for data from the audio device. Rezound blocked, and mencoder and
> transcode (I use them to record tv shows) also blocked. cat /dev/dsp sits
> there without doing anything.
>
> Hoping to solve the problem I have installed the ALSA drivers. Things are
> worse now. I still can't record, and in addition artds and gstreamer won't
> play anymore. XMMS works fine (through alsa) though.
>
> Does anyone have suspicions about what may be causing this problems, or even
> how I can go about investigating them?
>
> TIA
>
> Luca

I have since installed kernel version 2.6.8 and the playback problems went
away. However, I still can't record. The symptoms when trying to record are
as described above.

Luca