From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: sound problem (was: [no subject]) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:52:49 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40236AF9.1030204@sancharnet.in> References: <20040206065912.2EB3B1C946@heisspf> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: >All the .wav files I use for sounds such as opening, closing, iconify etc. >windows. >Playing a video CD is plain impossible whereas playing a music CD has no >distortion. >The distortion is a continuous scratching and a tapering-off really annoying >sound. > >I went now back into SW9.1 did a make xconfig sound and klicked yes for OSS. >Now the tapering-off sound is gone, however, the annoying scratch persists. It >is like an electrical static sound only harder on both speakers. I check the >wires, the plug, changed speakers; they must be all fine since there is now >such scratch with the RH9.0 sound system. > > Did you disable alsa during xconfig? If no, please do so. A person I know had the same problem (while playing mp3's, but should apply anyways) he had to run his music player with the OSS drivers (mpg321 -o oss ) for the sound to work fine. >Hope some solution can be found. > >Regards > > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs