>Make sure you are not using DMIX with default settings. DMIX is often >producing that kind of problem. Notice that starting with ALSA 1.0.11, >DMIX is being used even if you are not aware of it if your soundcard >doesn't support multiple channels. I'm using ALSA with default input and output device settings in Prefs, together .asoundrc below to enable multiple channels. If this is now redundant should I revert to my previous Ensoniq AudioPCI Audio Input/Output options in Prefs ? Adam. <snip> # Allow mixing of multiple output streams to this device # Dmix resample all streams to 48000 Hz (see the line below "rate 48000") # You can try 44100 but downsampling sound from 48000 (ie. from a DVD) unfortunately # does'nt work wery well (there are some syncronization problems with some players). pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 #This must be unique slave.pcm "snd_card" slave { # This stuff provides some fixes for latency issues. # buffer_size should be set for your audio chipset. period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 48000 <snip> # Allow reading from the default device. # Also known as record or capture. # While the Dmix plugin is for mixing multiple output(playback) streams together, # if you want to use multiple input(capture) clients you need to use the dsnoop plugin pcm.dsnooper { type dsnoop ipc_key 2048 slave.pcm "snd_card" <snip> # This is what we want as our default device # a fully duplex (read/write) audio device. pcm.duplex { type asym playback.pcm "dmixer" capture.pcm "dsnooper" <snip>
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