Re: Problems playing with intel8x0 [long]

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:56:21 -0700,
Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 02:22 am, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:42:54 -0700,
> >
> > Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> > > The intel8x0 driver has a bad habit of going into an infinite loop
> > > and consuming 100% cpu when I try to play certain sound files.  I
> > > think it has trouble with non-standard sample rates.  It will
> > > handle 44100, 22050, and 11025, but KDE ships some samples with
> > > weird rates like 7418, 11127 and 22254, and if I try to play these
> > > with, for example, aplay, I get the loop.
> >
> > which version are you using?
> > there WAS a bug in this regard but i believe it was fixed in the
> > recent version.
> 
> Was it a driver bug or an application bug?

it may happen on both.  but in your case, most likely the bug of
alsa-lib which was fixed in the recent release.

> I found that I could play 
> the samples with "play" but not with xmms or aplay.
> 
> I'm using 0.9.0rc7.  (Stock Mandrake 9.1)


Takashi


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