Dietmar,

        Sorry for the delay in responding - a busy time of year to be tinkering 
with debian.  Thanks for that "clue". For that and so many other reasons I went 
straight to 2.4.0 release, but that hasn't solved the problem - I still get 
"choppy" sound when using ESD from XMMS.

        I'm guessing it's some sort of shared-memory sync problem from the 
following observations:

        1) Sound playback from XMMS via OSS driver is perfect
        2) Sound playback of .WAV files (e.g. Desktop sounds) via ESD is perfect

        Further to the advice of Michael Smith, I doubt that this is an IRQ/DMA 
problem from the above observations.

        Hmm. I think the answer lies in the XMMS ESD plugin (libesdout.so 1.2.4 
from
package xmms v1.2.4-helix1) or ESD itself (/usr/bin/esd from package esound 
v0.2.22-2)

Regards,

Matthew Exley

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:54:07PM +0100, Dietmar Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:20:31PM +0000, Matthew Exley wrote:
> 
> > 1) Under kernel 2.2.18pre21, XMMS can play using the eSound plugin (i.e.
> > via esd) quite happily.
>  
> > 2) Under kernel 2.4.0-test11, XMMS->eSound still works, but the sound is
> > "choppy" - broken up into audible chunks. No amount of tweaking the
>  
> >     My question is therefore: Can anyone else reproduce this, and can
> > anyone *fix* this? (tweaks to esound / XMMS settings perhaps?)
> 
> I'm using a SB 128 PCI. The broken sound from esd was introduced by
> 2.4.0-test10 and fixed in test12. So upgrade or downgrade :)
> 
> -- 
> Bye,
> Dietmar
> 
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