Hi Peter, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:56:13PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> james was suggesting to kill arts and see if your sound is any better. this > effectively kills the middleman -- your audio program will interact directly > with the sound hardware instead of needing to interact with another user > land program which in turn will interact with the audio hardware. so: First of all, thank you so much for taking the time for such a detailed and patient explanation. It really set the ground clear for me. I killed arts (actually disabled Sound System at KDE's Control Center, but made sure the process wasn't really running) and tried to play an audio CD again: With kaffeine/xine the same cracking/skipping sound while playing With kscd played perfectly > another thing you may want to try is to make sure your mixer settings are > about 50% - 75% of their maximum setting using a mixer program like xmix, > cam, or nmixer. adjust your speakers appropriately. see if that helps. > > also, if you have them, try a different set of speakers. if your speakers > are really old, the cones might be brittle or even cracked which can cause > crackling. > > also, wiggle your wires. loose audio connections can also cause crackling. Mixer, speakers and wires should be OK because I can play audio CDs with kscd without the noises I hear with kaffeine/xine. So, excluded sound daemon, hardware and mixer, would be there be anything else to look into ? Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
