Bugzilla Bug 59779

$ file /usr/share/sounds/k3b_success1.wav
/usr/share/sounds/k3b_success1.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 8000 Hz

esdplay, xmms...

And I got 70% in alsamixer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

can you be more complete in your description ? What happens, where does it
happen, does it only happen with this file ?

And _always_ provide your 'emerge info' in bugreports.

I've got something like this too.
aplay plays the sound nice, "mplayer -vo alsa" sounds nice.

esdplay however plays the sound with noises and so does rhythmbox.

I'll do some testing on this..

I usually compile things with GCC 3.4 and CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=k8
-fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer"
The first thing I did was to recompile esound with "-02 -march=k8". That didn't
help.
I switched back to GCC 3.3 and compiled it with CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe
-march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer", and now it's working again.

gcc-config -l
[1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
[2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.1

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51_pre17 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/private_overlay /usr/local/bmg_gnome_current
/usr/local/bmg_overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga doc dvd
encode esd evo faad fam fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint
glade glut gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk2 gtkhtml howl icq imap imlib
imlib2 jabber java jit jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx mng mono
mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn ncurses nls nptl objc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl
oscar pam pdflib perl plotutils png pthreads python qt readline samba scanner
sdk sdl slang spell ssl stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff
truetype type1 uml unicode usb x86 xine xml2 xv zlib"

Sound driver is ALSA with snd_via82xx driver-module.
I had been experimenting with esound 0.2.35 too, don't know if that could have
affected anything.

No noises with such files:
/usr/share/psi/sound/ft_complete.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 44100 Hz
/usr/kde/3.2/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz

Now that esound .35 is in portage I tried some more.
It seems like .34 allways work and .35 produces noises no matter what I compile it with.

Tried some more now.
Totem with it's AC3 passthrough doesn't have this problem, but everything that goes through esound sounds strange. The sound is a bit faster, and has some static in it.

What could it be.. the new mmap support? 

esound changelog:
2004-06-11  Frederic Crozat  <fcrozat@mandrakesoft.com>

	* docs/esddsp.1.in:
	* esddsp.c: (dsp_init), (mmapemu_flush), (open), (dspctl), (close),
	(mmap), (munmap):
	* esddsp.in:
	MMAP support for esddsp (from artsdsp) (bug #144157,
	patch from Olivier Blin <oliv.blin@laposte.net>).

Could this be a duplicate of bug (60945)?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60945

Yes, yes, in my case it could very well be!

*** Bug 60945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

for now we go with esound .25 masked for gnome 2.8, given the current esound
activity we might close this bug with that.

does this problem still occur?

This may be related to this bug: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140803

esound-0.2.35 is buggy, but please try esound-0.2.36 (recently committed,
although still hard-masked for testing) and check if it shows the same problem.
Thanks.

The only version of esound in which I have noticed noise problems is 0.2.35.
Version 0.2.36 seems to work fine, so I've unmasked it in preparation for
gnome-2.10.2.

Please test it and let us know if you encounter any problems with it. Thanks.