Re: OSS sound emulation broken between 2.6.0-test2 and test3

[Edward Tandi]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 12:24, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 13:44, Edward Tandi wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:11, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 09:50, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > > > Something appears to have broken OSS sound emulation between 
> > > > test2 and test3. Best I can tell (despite the appearance of the BK logs), 
> > > > that included ALSA updates 0.9.5 and 0.9.6. Hopefully someone who
> > > > understands the sound architecture better than I can fix this?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I wont say I understand it, but a quick look seems the major change is
> > > the addition of the 'whole-frag' and 'no-silence' opts.  You might try
> > > the following to revert what 'no-silence' change at least does:
> > > 
> > > --
> > >  # echo 'xmms 0 0 no-silence' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
> > >  # echo 'xmms 0 0 whole-frag' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
> > > --
> > 
> > Thanks, that fixes it for me. I too have been seeing terrible problems
> > with XMMS since the early 2.6 pre- kernels.
> > 
> > Because it only happens in XMMS I thought it was one of those
> > application bugs brought out by scheduler changes. I now use Zinf BTW
> > -It's better for large music collections (although not as stable or
> > flash).
> > 
> 
> Can you check which one actually fixes it ?

Yes, its the 'whole-frag' line.

Ed-T.


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