I'm relatively unexperienced with Gentoo, just installed a few weeks ago
Gentoo on my Laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo) with Turion 64 AMD processor.
I got everyting working (Sound, Ethernet, Wireless (ndiswrapper), USB,
synaptics, I havent't tested DVD/CD burning yet, etc ...) Everything
worked well.
After last weekend update (emerge --sync, emerge --update portage, emerge
--update world), the sound still works (i hear sound), but both mp3 and
audio cd's sound chopped ....)
Any ideas ?

thanks for any hints,

Herman
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So, not a single gentoo - guru has got a clue? I haven't got any errors,
no messages, but nevertheless I managed to screw up a perfect good working
laptop (after a lot of hard work installing gentoo) with a single update ?

Looks like flexibility has got its price ?

Nobody out there got thios problem ???

Brgds,
Herman

Herman Timmermans wrote:

> I'm relatively unexperienced with Gentoo, just installed a few weeks ago
> Gentoo on my Laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo) with Turion 64 AMD processor.
> I got everyting working (Sound, Ethernet, Wireless (ndiswrapper), USB,
> synaptics, I havent't tested DVD/CD burning yet, etc ...) Everything
> worked well.
> After last weekend update (emerge --sync, emerge --update portage, emerge
> --update world), the sound still works (i hear sound), but both mp3 and
> audio cd's sound chopped ....)
> Any ideas ?
>
> thanks for any hints,
>
> Herman

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Herman Timmermans said something like a ...

> Nobody out there got thios problem ???

I don't use a laptop.
Did you try the Gentoo forum? If it makes you feel better that you're in
some company, Q3A on my nforce board (x86_64) has no sound ... although
everything else plays normally.

Is there no sound for anything? Have you tried - as root - alsaconf,
alsamixer, aslactl store? Volume turned up on the laptop and within
software?

Have you reviewed /var/log/emerge.log and note the changes to the system? Do
you use etc-update or dispatch-conf? What does dmesg reveal? Tried anything
in a terminal to get output messages?

What sound system do you use - kernel level or driver for ALSA? Did you
change kernels?

WHAT DID YOU DO DIFFERENTLY ?
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:05:33 +0200, Herman Timmermans wrote:

>
> Nobody out there got thios problem ???
>

Hi, you're not completely alone...
I've also got choppy sound. But only for programs like Totem and Rhythmbox.
As I mostly use XMMS or MPlayer, and these still work, I'm not quite sure
when this happened. I think it was a couple of weeks ago, though.

Apart from moral support, my suggestion is that this may not be a ALSA
problem, but maybe some more specific GNOME-library problem. And
possibly an amd64-problem? This is just some general ideas as I have
not bothered to check this problem (yet).

Just for info:
simen@ozymandias ~ $ uname -a
Linux ozymandias 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #7 Sun Mar 19 21:04:19 CET 2006 x86_64
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ GNU/Linux


--- Simen ---

On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:29:08 +0200, Simen wrote:

> On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:05:33 +0200, Herman Timmermans wrote:
>
>>
>> Nobody out there got thios problem ???
>>
>
> Hi, you're not completely alone...
> I've also got choppy sound. But only for programs like Totem and Rhythmbox.
> As I mostly use XMMS or MPlayer, and these still work, I'm not quite sure
> when this happened. I think it was a couple of weeks ago, though.
>
> Apart from moral support, my suggestion is that this may not be a ALSA
> problem, but maybe some more specific GNOME-library problem. And
> possibly an amd64-problem? This is just some general ideas as I have
> not bothered to check this problem (yet).
>
> Just for info:
> simen@ozymandias ~ $ uname -a
> Linux ozymandias 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #7 Sun Mar 19 21:04:19 CET 2006 x86_64
> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ GNU/Linux
>
>
> --- Simen ---

Simen,

Thanks. I was just using Totem (didn't test it yet with xmms or mplayer,
as I still need to emerge those ). It used to work fine until last update.
For what it is worth :

turion64 herman # uname -a
Linux turion64 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Wed May 24 17:07:06 GMT 2006
x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 GNU/Linux

After my update, the sound was choppy (both audio-cd as with mp3 files).
But I found a solution ;-) Maybe this works for you as well? I changed in
the Gnome Desktop -> Preferences -> Multimedia Systems Selector -> Audio
tab :
Default Sink - Output : ESD - Enlightenment Sound Deamon in stead off ALSA
(you can also try Autodetect). This solved for me the chopped sound.

Thanks for your feedback,

Herman

On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:25:50 +0000, Herman Timmermans wrote:
>
> Simen,
>
> Thanks. I was just using Totem (didn't test it yet with xmms or
> mplayer, as I still need to emerge those ). It used to work fine until
> last update. For what it is worth :
>
> turion64 herman # uname -a
> Linux turion64 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Wed May 24 17:07:06 GMT 2006
> x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 GNU/Linux
>
> After my update, the sound was choppy (both audio-cd as with mp3 files).
> But I found a solution ;-) Maybe this works for you as well? I changed
> in the Gnome Desktop -> Preferences -> Multimedia Systems Selector ->
> Audio tab :
> Default Sink - Output : ESD - Enlightenment Sound Deamon in stead off
> ALSA (you can also try Autodetect). This solved for me the chopped
> sound.
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
>
> Herman


I've had a closer look at my system today. You're right about ESD. That
works for me, too.
But I also found a way to use ALSA. Have a look at
"http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix#Amarok.2Bgstreamer .2Balsasink_in_KDE"

Basically my problem was solved by this suggestion: " If the above gives
choppy/cracked sound then try:
$ gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=/path/to/file.mp3 ! mad ! alsasink
period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096 "

Following the descriptions further up in that page, checking "period-size"
and "buffer-size" in my .asoundrc and setting
Default Sink - Output : Custom, "alsasink device=dmix"
solved the problem for me.

Anyway, unless you are very interested in making everything work, using
ESD is also a perfectly valid solution ;-)

--- Simen ---