Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 7:30 am, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 10:44 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 15:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 8:37 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: On the autosuspend, a long time ago, I found a situation where a sound app would not start because the 60 sec time out had not expired

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 1:19 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 02:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't have anything at all about ALSA. I have two entries concerning External Midi Device. As I told Steffen, the second (selected one) looks absolutely normal, showing EMU10K1

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 02:53, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 10:44 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 15:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 8:37 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: On the autosuspend, a long time ago, I found a situation where a sound app would not

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 22 August 2003 02:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I understand that, but alsa is installed. As you found, the default is to use oss. How did you switch it to use alsa? Just to make sure that I don't give you the wrong advice, I would suggest following the fairly complete instructions

[expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
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). (Now you may say that I should not be logged

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 21 August 2003 07:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 1:15 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 07:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Dick Gevers
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:46:10 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] Sound corruption: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 3:07 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:46:10 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] Sound corruption: The sound corruption that I'm experiencing comes with system sounds (never tried a cd or mp3 while the corruption

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 13:46 schrieb Anne Wilson: Hi Anne ! 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 21 August 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne Well, offhand, one thing that I can think of is that there is some issue with the arts daemon and interaction with drivers on

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 17:32 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 3:33 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne I donna know, but I think we have pretty much the same sound card (SB-Audigy), and i don't have no such trouble, and my X windows

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 4:31 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne Well, offhand, one thing that I can think of is that there is some

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 5:23 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 17:32 schrieb Anne Wilson: 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

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:32 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I'll look at that, but any more info on how these modules fit together would be much appreciated. Thanks, Steffen Anne, you might want to take a look at this: http://www.arts-project.org/doc/handbook/ I would suggest playing with

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 8:37 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: On the autosuspend, a long time ago, I found a situation where a sound app would not start because the 60 sec time out had not expired (for a finished system notification sound, for example). Setting this to one second made the delay that

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 5:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne I donna know, but I think we have pretty much the same sound card (SB-Audigy),

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I wish I understood this sound setup - I can't make head nor tail of it. HardDrake seems to say that I am running emu10k2 with OSS. When I look at Services in MCC I see that alsa is available, although stopped. I expected that to be

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 5:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne I donna know, but I think we have pretty much the same sound card

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 15:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 8:37 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: On the autosuspend, a long time ago, I found a situation where a sound app would not start because the 60 sec time out had not expired (for a finished system notification sound, for

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 21 August 2003 02:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't have anything at all about ALSA. I have two entries concerning External Midi Device. As I told Steffen, the second (selected one) looks absolutely normal, showing EMU10K1 Midi, but the first one has [EMAIL PROTECTED]@e -