emu10k1 issue

dark_glaive · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:58 am Post subject: emu10k1 issue

Ever since I started using Gentoo I've had this weird problem with when sounds end in certain programs (most noticeably GAIM) there is an annoying popping noise. Well, I started using a different sound card and driver and the problem no longer occurs. The reason this seems to be a driver issue is that while I use a Sound Blaster Live!, my roommate uses an Audigy which both share the emu10k1 driver. He has the same problem. I've seen other people complain about the GAIM popping noise and was just wondering if any other emu10k1 users have had any sort of the same negative experience with it.
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Kovid · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:25 am Post subject:

Works great on my Audigy ZS 2

Delirium · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Brisbane

I use an Audigy DE card and the same popping sound occurs at the end of short sound files (such as the gaim notifications). I'm using the latest ~x86 version of the alsa packages incase a newer version of the driver comes out that fixes the problem.

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 945 Location: USA

That is really strange, because I am using a SoundBlaster Live! card in my movie machine at home.
At work in my main workstation I am using a SoundBlaster Live!... pretty much in any working machine I am running a SoundBlaster Live! card.
One thing I should mention... I am running OSS and not ALSA since I don't really make use of the extra features in ALSA.
Try running OSS... maybe that will fix it!
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joeswift · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

i would look at probably upgrading my sound drivers (ALSA) to the latest version, sometime it could be hardware related problem but if you both are having problems it's strange.

Delirium · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Brisbane

Since I don't have this problem in windows; I already have the latest alsa drivers (see my previous post); and it appears that this problem does not occur with Audigy 2 cards or SoundBlaster Live! cards. I would say that this is a problem with the emu10k1 driver specific to audigy cards.

Since this is most likely a problem upstream I don't know where a bug report should be filed. Should this be reported on sourceforge?

I suppose before that happens though I would like to see if any other Audigy users don't have this problem and if so what they're config files look like.

Paladine01 · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject:

I have an Audigy and I hear the same popping. Audio works fine except in GAIM.

Delirium · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Brisbane

Paladine01 · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

I use xmms from time to time and it plays without any ill effects. I don't have any other audio notifications set up so the only time I hear short audio is within GAIM.

Delirium · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Brisbane

As this seems to be a problem with the driver I have posted a report in the alsa bugtracking system >> Bug Report

Hopefully I will be told if it's fixable or that it's actually a configuration error.