What about using a sound daemon, such as artsd? you can start artsd, then run xmms with it's output set to arts (install xmmsarts first!). Artsd may prevent this end-of-song problem, because you can tell it to not release the soundcard between songs (set the -s flag to a high value). Thus the soundcard remains 'open'. An advantage to using a sound daemon is that many programs can access the daemon simultaneously (unlike OSS drivers for my i810 audio).
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 11:12, Matt Elder wrote: > Problem: > > I am having trouble setting up my VIA soundcard. Whenever I attempt to > play a sound file, I either get massive skipping, skipping at the end of > the file, or no sound at all. I think this has something to do with the > sound card's buffer - perhaps it's not getting flushed properly, but > that's just a guess. > > I have tried using both the VIA82cxxx sound module that comes with the > Linux kernel, and the ALSA snd-via82xx driver. This is my story. > > With the kernel-native driver, I get no sound whatsoever. Even if I > execeute 'cat /bin/bash > /dev/dsp', I get no sound. From reading > around online, my understanding is that this sound driver doesn't work > well with my chipset, so I haven't messed with it much. > > With the ALSA driver, I had somewhat better success. > Using XMMS (with the OSS plugin), I can skip between songs without > trouble, but if a song reaches its end, it skips on the last bit, > playing repeatedly and hanging XMMS until it decides to quit (about six > or seven repeats, usually). If I use the ALSA plugin, XMMS hangs at the > end of a song or at any attempt to change songs. Using mpg321, every > buffer-full of any song skips. When playing short sounds from any other > user program (gaim, koules, etc...), The whole sound will skip > > Anyone have any ideas about how I can deal with this? > > Thanks, > - Matt Elder > > Configuration: > I have an onboard VIA 8233 AC97 soundcard. I'm running the testing > version of Debian, on top of a manually compiled kernel-2.4.21. > > With Alsa: > > /etc/modules: > usb-uhci > input > keybdev > mousedev > joydev > parport > parport_pc > hid > soundcore > snd-via82xx > nvidia > bcm4400 > > Relevant part of /etc/modules.conf: > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa > ### DEBCONF MAGIC > # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 --- > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 > options snd-via82xx index=0 > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
