Since the last update I've found that my sound coming through ESD is very crackly and bad. ALSA seems just fine and when I play anything through aplay it sounds perfect.
It is possible that I've just not noticed the sound being this bad before, but I'm fairly certain I would have. GAIM's receive wav has always been annoying, but now it sounds like its being dragged accross a cheese grator :) Same with anything using sound via Firefox and the flash plugin. I did read the previous thread on ESD sound being bad on the list here, but at the time that came out I wasn't having any problems.
/proc/asound/cards 0 [SB0400 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0xe800, irq 5
/proc/asound/modules 0 snd_emu10k
I take that back, it may not be ESD after all. I've been experimenting with dmix and if I do a : aplay -D plug:dmix receive.wav Its very crackily and bad. However: aplay receive.wav plays fine.
I confirmed that dmix is the culprit here. Its set as default in .asoundrc in my user home directory. The above test I did was as root, so the normal aplay without specifying dmix was what played fine. However running that same command as a user gives me similar crackily output.
The reason this appears to have happened since the last update is dmix was set as the default.
alsa-lib-1.0.9rc2-1 ------------------- * Fri Apr 22 2005 Martin Stransky stransky@redhat.com 1.0.9rc2-1 - updated to 1.0.9rc2 - add ainit tool - dmix is now default pcm device
I'm going to check for existing bugs on this. Sorry to spam the list with this stuff. Can I ask what the default Fedora was using before this was however? I tried removing my .asoundrc and of course it just got rewritten :)
Thanks! Caerie