Re: esd == bad_sound

["Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" <mandrake mandrake net>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:01:40AM -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, James Charles Lewis wrote:
> 
> > > esd is not 100% noise-free, but it doesn't seem any worse than /dev/dsp
> > > directly.
> > 
> > Um, esd _IS_ worse than /dev/dsp.  If you want a comparison, listen to an
> > AM radio then turn on your favorite CD.
> 
> Beg your pardon, I'm already familiar with various levels of sound
> quality, and have no sound quality problems compared to direct /dev/dsp.
> 
> You are having a problem that other people are not, so telling everyone
> else that "esd sucks just because" is inaccurate.
> 
> > > Might want to get a bit more details on exactly which situations the
> > > problem occurs in and how it manifests itself - a question I ask sometimes
> > > is "what's the simplest possible way to reproduce this problem?"
> > 
> > The simplest way to reproduce the problem is use esd.  All sound effects
> > from GNOME have a slight popping "ghost sound."  All mp3's sound like
> > their skipping.  I thought it was skipping until I recomplied mpg123
> > without esd support.  Of course, while using esd there is a popping and
> > crackling.  Usually there is little noise when >I< sit idle, but moving
> > windows and such seem to increase the noise.
> 
> Um, this has to be your sound card picking up EMF from the other parts of
> the computer (I know because I get noise whenever I move my mouse).

actually I had a lot more problems with sound quality when I was running a 2.0
kernel series.  upgrading into 2.1 and 2.2 has made sound degradation problems
in esd considerably lesser for me.

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