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From: Sean Cross <secross@whidbey.com>
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To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>, alsa-user@jcu.cz
Subject: Re: Ensoniq ES1371: Strange problem with alsasound when running quake.
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Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Sean Cross wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I have been running the latest alsasound(0.2.0-pre8) and
> > everything in the package works great,
> > exept when running quake, the sound rapidly turns on and off. (about
> > every 1/4 second)
> >
> > I have tryed the OSS shareware demo and the sound never cut out
> > when running quake.
> > (I would rather be running alsa sound :)
> 
> Can you see if some underruns are counted when quake is running? Try 'cat
> /proc/asound/0/pcm0' while quake is running (from another console).
> 

OK, I got:
---------------------------------------------------
ES1371 DAC2/ADC

Playback
  Mode           : OSS compatible [mmap]
  Format         : Signed 16-bit Little Endian
  Rate           : 11024Hz [requested 11025Hz]
  Channels       : 2
  Buffer size    : 131072
  Buffer used    : 131072
  Fragments      : 16
  Fragment size  : 8192
  Underruns      : 0
  Total underruns: 1135
Record
  Mode           : OSS compatible [mmap]
  Format         : Signed 16-bit Little Endian
  Rate           : 11025Hz [requested 11025Hz]
  Channels       : 2
  Buffer size    : 131072
  Buffer used    : 0
  Fragments      : 0
  Fragment size  : 0
  Overruns       : 0
  Total overruns : 0

----------------------------------------

So should i increase the buffer size?
How do i do that?
Thanks Again. :^)

>                                                         Jaroslav
> 
> -----
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
> Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
> Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic

secross@whidbey.com

