alsa buffer

ThisBullet · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 81

Simple question: How can i increase the alsa sound buffer size. Thanks. I appreciate a fast response

bhav2007 · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:51 am Post subject:

I think that has something to do with "~/.asoundrc". Are you using dmix? this page has some stuff on .asoundrc, which includes a line called "buffer_size". Personally, I never could understand how this file was supposed to look, and whenever I made the smallest changes stuff stopped working. I ended up just buying a nice soundcard which worked well without tinkering.
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chadnickbok · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 3

I also need to find this out. I'm having problems playing Counter-Strike : Source. Everything works fine

except the sounds, which are all a bit choppy and... well, just ugly.

I had a similar problem using Suse with kde, trying to play warcraft 3. I managed to fix the problem by increasing the buffer, to minimize the lagging, and everything went fine.

Who says you can't game well in linux?