Kirk Strauser wrote: > In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any > sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon > as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in > /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I can play sounds > through ALSA's OSS emulation layer without any problems. In fact, I've > configured KDE's artsd to use OSS in the mean time, and I'm not having any > trouble at all. > > Has anyone seen anything like this? I'm really puzzled as to why I can't > use ALSA directly. Furthermore, I don't know how to get any debugging > information to illuminate the matter.
Just last weekend, I finally decided to get ALSA working on my main workstation, which had been OSS-based until then. I also found that I had to use the OSS emulation layer to get anything to work; KDE's aRTs would either complain that it could not open the dsp device, or lock up, when I tried various other approaches. Craig
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