Re: [Openvortex-dev] It Works! almost...

[J. Gordon Wolfe]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Manuel broke aplay
in favor of fixing a bug having to do with period size.  I guess aplay
tries to use periods of non-integer size, and the driver only does
integers, so it fails.  At least, thats what the mail I've got saved
says.  I don't have a commit message to prove that those changes were
actually made, but I think they were.

But you're not crazy.  Aplay doesn't work for me either, not that I have
a reason to use it.  I don't know about those popping sounds though...
it doesn't sound quite like anything I've experienced.

 - Gordon

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 18:56, Simon Koch wrote:
> Sorry, Ryan, I accidentally clicked "Reply" instead of "Reply to Mailing List"
> 
> I have an 8830.  I don't get any popping noises, but I have this same problem 
> with aplay (and any other program playing sound via ALSA).  The error occurs 
> somewhere in snd_hw_params_set_buffer_time_near.  I get this error with 2.4 
> and 2.6 kernels.
> 
> I've tried tracing it through aplay, alsa-lib, and the driver itself, and my 
> best guess is it has something do do with setting dma on the card.  I'm new 
> to kernel debugging, though, so it's hard to be sure.  Running gdb on aplay 
> does tell me that err == -22, if that means something to anyone.
> 
> On a more positive note, it works brilliantly when I use OSS-emulation.
> 
> Thanks,
>         Simon
> 
> On Monday 08 September 2003 21:26, Ryan wrote:
> > Thanks so much to everyone who helped me get up and running. I've
> > successfully compiled all the necessary stuff and it appears to be working
> > (at least xmms with the alsa-xmms output pluging functions)! However, I'm
> > having two problems:
> >
> > 1) aplay gives me an error messages:
> > # aplay -v /usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav
> > Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
> > Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
> > aplay: aplay.c:836: set_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
> > Aborted by signal Aborted...
> >
> > What does that mean? Couldn't find anything while googleing...
> >
> > 2) Sound problems - I can hear popping sometimes when different actions
> > happen on my computer (like the taskbar popping open). Some songs that I
> > listen to seem to have little pops here and there that make it sound like
> > I'm listening to them underwater (or something like that). Are these
> > problems with my settings? how can I help to debug/fix these problems?
> >
> > Thanks again. My compliments to the developers. :)
> >
> > Ryan