[plug] realplayer and via onboard audio

[John Knight]

May I ask what video cards everyone's using? I'm one of the sound problem 
people of earlier. I use to have a TNT2 M64 that was AGP and this caused 
endless sound problems under both OSes. I found that in 'windoze', an old 
nVidia driver from 99 worked fine without giving me any sound problems (an 
old driver certainly gives stability problems though), but the newer drivers 
wreaked aural havoc.


Eventually I got myself an ATI card and windoze was a case of "problem 
solvered". Linux still has the odd sound problem here and there though, with 
the first few seconds in RealPlayer (changing to Esound didn't help either, 
see the audio settings part) and occasionally a constant crackle in XMMS 
with visualisations, which is fixed by pausing and playing again.

All in all, I think that older VIA boards have a problem with AGP slots, 
maybe an interrupted resource or something similar. I'm about to get an 
upgrade soon and being an AMD person, could anyone recommend a a 'mobo' that 
they know doesn't have sound problems?

seeya then! :)
anarchist tomato

>
>Talking about strange sound effects on via chipsets under Linux...
>
>For what it's worth, I've seen the same effect on several Windows
>boxes.  The Windows sign-on tune starts out okay and then becomes
>"strangled" -- really the only way to describe it.  All other sound files
>react teh same way.  Have also heard the "crackling" sound.
>
>Lacking time to follow through in depth, solution so far is to reload the
>driver.  No idea if it will recur.  IRQ problem?  But then it should not
>respond to a driver reload.  (end of idle speculation)
>
>Cheers,
>Denis
>


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