From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: When playing sounds (xmms, for example), the sound output crackes when other activities occur in the system (switching windows on the desktop, loading a web page, etc...) Sound card is a Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02), driver snd_ens1371, alsa subsystem used (but happens when using oss pcm emulation, too) Has been happening with older 2.6 kernels, too, this is not a problem specific to 590 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.590 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start steaming audio 2. do other things in the system, causing cpu usage 3. Actual Results: Crackling in the sound Expected Results: Clean playback Additional info:
can you try adding -r 48000 to the /etc/esd.conf file on the line that starts with spawn_options=
I am not using esd.
No improvements with the latest errata either ?
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.
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Fwiw, this seems to be fixed, too.
thanks for the update.