Sound problem -- better defined

[Joel Hammer]

Well, you asked to see my setup.
I have an AMD athlon 800 Thunderbird.
I really believe in lots of memory.
Here is the output of free while playing mp3's. Memory is so cheap now
that I have max'ed out my MB.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        771076     731132      39944          0     367956     212788
-/+ buffers/cache:     150388     620688
Swap:       305224       5236     299988

Here are my dev's while I am logged in ("remote" xsession with X :1 -indirect chooserhost.
I think that qualifies as a remote Xsession!)
Here is the output of fuser /dev/* (edited to remove unimportant dev's.)

Process 1984 is:
1984 ?        SL     1:28 X :1 -indirect hammer2        
(hammer2 is my chooser server)

process 4782 is my mpg123 program.
4782 pts/3    S      0:08 mpg123 13_Randy_Newman_and_Bonnie_Raitt_Feels_Like_Ho          

apm_bios:             1962  1984
console:               415   446  1458
dsp:                  4782
gpmctl:                454
mouse:                1984
nvidia0:              1962  1962m  1984  1984m
nvidiactl:            1962  1984
psaux:                1984

ls -al on dsp:
crwxrwxrwx   1 root     root      14,   3 Feb 17  2000 dsp       

I hope this helps! And, I sure enjoyed listening to Bonnie Rait while I
wrote this up.

Joel




             On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:51:15PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write:
> > I forgot just what your configuration was, but, maybe you can make the
> > permissions on your /dev/dsp or whatever static, and permit only your user
> > to access this device. BTW, I play my mp3's from a remote box (remote
> > xsession) and don't have any trouble.
> > Have you tried playing your mp3's from a virtual console with mpg123 ?
> > Joel
> >
> 
> No, but I'm not playing MP3's... but I'd sure like to know how you got yours 
> set up ;-)
> 
> What I'm doing is recording vinyl lps as WAVs (with krecord) and cleaning 
> them of background noise, pops and clicks with The Gnome Wave Cleaner (gwc). 
> All on the host of any remote X session that might be going on. So I'm not 
> logged in remotely, one of the other family members is (and it's only one, 
> since we have only 2 PCs), and they're the ones interfering with the playback 
> of the WAV file (alledgedly -- the jury's still out). That being said, I'm 
> leaning away from it being a device permissions issue at all, and more likely 
> a simple RAM issue. 
> GWC will load the entire WAV file (as much as 70 or so MB) into RAM. I think 
> the burden of that, plus a remote X session, plus whatever else I might have 
> open locally is working my RAM pretty hard. That and the fact that GWC is 
> beta code could be the cause of the problem. 
> What I haven't tried, is whether any other multimedia apps experience a 
> problem with playback when a remote X session is active. I'll probly test 
> that tomorrow.
> Thanks, 
> Tim
> 
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