[dundee] sound help!

Andrew Clayton dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Tue Jan 14 20:21:01 2003


On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:51, Keir Lawson wrote:
> when i start frozen bubble from the terminal it works but the sound is very crackly. its like the sound buffer isnt big enough.  its weird as when i tried to run it from the terminal erlear it generated an error saying something about alsa but now it seems to be workin with (al be it rubbish) sound.  it may be because i used xmms or something.
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So your using ALSA, this may be the problem here, not that there is
anything wrong with ALSA, but programs do need to be ALSA aware. Though
I thought ALSA had an OSS compatibility layer. Maybe some of your games
have the ability to output audio to alsa, through a command line option.


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Andrew Clayton