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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

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