On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:42:06 +0000
Tim Sawchuck wrote:
> I have puzzle for ya'all! Oh, joy, right?
>
> This is on Mandrake Cooker 10.0, so I'm not a real rookie. All
> ALSA packages are mandrake rpms. Soundcard is Turtle Beach
> Santa Cruz snd-cs46xx (I know, not the best, but hey it has
> worked well so far). fingers crossed!
>
> Everything has been working perfectly, until the alsa 1.0.1
> release. Last week was fine, this week I have this weird volume
> jump on song change.
>
> Using xmms-1.2.8-2.mdk and alsa 1.0.1 (libalsa2, libalsa-data,
> alsa-utils), kernel-2.6.1 w/ alsa-driver 1.0.1, playing local
> files (ogg & mp3 - by song or m3u playlist) each new song start
> jumps volume to 100% from ~50% setting. I lower volume and each
> new song start jumps back to 100%.
>
> AlsaPlayer does not exhibit this behaviour, BMP does the volume
> jumps, but I'm not real surprised, since it uses the xmms
> engine. Of course xmms does not do it on an audio stream since
> in effect, the song does not change.
>
> I've removed all xmms related plugins (alarm, xosd, cover
> viewer), no change. Only xmms and libxmms are present. Have
> started xmms from command line, with and wtihout strace, but no
> messages.
>
> I went so far as deleting all XMMS apps, and cleaning all
> configs for it from my user and root. Reinstalled and
> reconfigured, still the volume jump.
>
> Switching to OSS output solves it, but now playing streaming
> audio fails! xmms just stalls with "Connecting to site IP"
>
> I tried to Google for info, but nothing found. I can only
> assume that something has changed with the alsa 1.0.1 that is
> not compatible with the xmms-alsa-1.2.8 output plugin (?)
>
> My .asoundrc (no magic here ;-)
>
> pcm.cs46xx {
> type hw
> card 0
> device 0
> }
>
> pcm.cs46xx {
> type hw
> card 0
> device 1
> }
>
> I can post modprobe.conf and proc/ info if needed, but I don't
> think it applies. Does ANYONE have a clue? I've done
> everything I can think to do in the last three days. Posted on
> the mandrake cooker list of course, and no one else has this
> issue, and alsa maintainers cannot duplicate it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas!Well, alsa 1.0.2 fixed it, whatever it was............... -- Registered Linux User #329428 http://counter.li.org/ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 5CCDEFF8 GNU/Linux Mandrake 10.0 Cooker - kernel 2.6.1-1mdk i686
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