Problem with ESS Solo1

Problem with ESS Solo1

[Ravi K. Swamy]

Hello,
   I've noticed a possible bug when playing realaudio files or the new
game Unreal Tournament.  I have an ESS Solo1 card, lspci shows it as:

00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ESS 1969 (rev 01)

I've tried out both 2.2.12 and 2.3.24, and SMP and non-SMP on two different
machines and noticed the same thing.  

When playing realaudio files with the new g2 player it sounds like the
sound is played back 1000 times faster than it should be, none of the
options in the player seem to help.  The same thing happens to sounds
in Unreal Tournament.  Most sound programs work fine, x11amp/xmms, mpg123,
sox/play for wav files, q3test, all work fine.

Is this a known bug?  I know that the realaudio player for linux has been
quite buggy and unreal tournament is still just a demo but I thought I would
ask if anyone has seen this behavior before.

Ravi Swamy

Re: Problem with ESS Solo1

[Thomas Sailer]

"Ravi K. Swamy" wrote:

> When playing realaudio files with the new g2 player it sounds like the
> sound is played back 1000 times faster than it should be, none of the

It looks like it's the same thing as with the older real players that's
documented in Documentation/Changes. So you either need to find
the place to patch g2 or use the LD_PRELOAD trick...

Tom

Re: Problem with ESS Solo1

[Ravi K. Swamy]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Thomas Sailer wrote:

> > When playing realaudio files with the new g2 player it sounds like the
> > sound is played back 1000 times faster than it should be, none of the
> 
> It looks like it's the same thing as with the older real players that's
> documented in Documentation/Changes. So you either need to find
> the place to patch g2 or use the LD_PRELOAD trick...
> 
> Tom

I have seen the bug in the old real players and this is nothing like the
previous one.  The old bug was that the sound would play *normally* and
then all of a sudden stop.  What I am seeing is nothing at all like the
old bug.  The old bug is described quite well at
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/  but this problem I am seeing seems
to be very specific to the ESS Solo1 card.  The G2 player and Unreal Tournament
work fine on my old SB 32, Ensoniq 1371, and ESS 16xx.

Ravi