On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 3:33 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 13:46 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > Hi Anne ! > Hi, Steffen
> > My box runs 24/7, but I have to log out and in again fairly > > frequently. The reason for this is that I get a really bad sound > > corruption that seems to occur when I have been logged in for > > more than 24 hours (but not a regular pattern, I think). > > Well I know that thing as it occurs here too. > OK - so it's not entirely down to me <g> > > > The sound corruption that I'm experiencing comes with system > > sounds (never tried a cd or mp3 while the corruption is there), > > and every sound is accompanied by something like a clearing of > > the throat, but at high volume - best description I can find. If > > I log out and in again the problem disappears. > > Yep high frequent noise. As it was pointed out I think that this > comes if more then one sound is played. On my system it was often > caused by aplay that plays the system sound then mail has arrived. > ( I have switched this crappy artsd off on my system. ) > True, the system sound and the wav file are both called every time there is mail. My card is an Audigy, running on emu10k2. HardDrake seems to be saying that it uses OSS, not alsa. I don't know where artsd fits in to the picture. Are you saying that artsd is what plays system sounds? If so, I guess it will turn off via 'services', right? I could give that a try. > > Can anyone suggest a likely cause? > > On my system a 'service alsa restart' has fixed this issue all the > time. If you have arts running and a relogin fixes it, it may be > arts. It is interesting tough, since I thought all the time it is a > bad soundcard driver. I have a Terratec DMX Fire 1024 using cs46xx > driver and with the switch from 9.0 to 9.1 it got a lot better, > with 9.2 beta1 I have the feeling sound is even better again, but > that may be subjective. On further problem I may have here is that > I have some dma problems (not enough bandwith on pci I guess, > caused by my dvb card and sound card and high system load => cdrdao > cue-burning ) Never had such things with the onboard sound, but the > Terratec sounds so much better i stay with restarting alsa ;) > > short: Possible fix: switching off system sound ;) > I'll look at that, but any more info on how these modules fit together would be much appreciated. Thanks, Steffen Anne
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