When I run xmms with dmix, songs occasionally gain a lot of static/noise. The problem goes away when I pause the song and start it again. It's never happened with two songs playing simultaneously, but it only happens when I have dmix turned on. All of my songs are mp3's, if that matters. xmms 1.2.8 alsa-xmms 0.9.12 alsa 0.9.8 Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1 /share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd fbco n foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jpeg kde libg++ lib www mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype video_cards_radeon x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Hardware: ThinkPad T30 Sound hardware: intel8x0 kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r8 lsmod output: Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-mixer-oss 13168 0 (autoclean) snd-intel8x0 19076 4 snd-pcm 60992 1 [snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 14436 1 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 42232 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-page-alloc 6068 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 3456 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 12992 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4064 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd 32644 2 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3492 1 [snd] sr_mod 12728 0 (autoclean) floppy 49628 0 (autoclean) radeon 121664 1 agpgart 18128 3 (autoclean) parport_pc 26920 1 (autoclean) lp 6240 0 (autoclean) parport 24064 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] usb-storage 22832 0 (unused) mousedev 3988 1 hid 14568 0 (unused) input 3232 0 [mousedev hid] usb-uhci 22348 0 (unused) hw_random 2744 0 (unused) serial 47012 0 (unused) isa-pnp 29636 0 [serial] rtc 6556 0 (autoclean) usbcore 59744 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci] nls_iso8859-1 2812 1 (autoclean) ntfs 76556 1 (autoclean) ide-scsi 9680 0 ide-floppy 13632 0 ide-cd 30436 0 cdrom 29728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] apm 10148 2 asound.conf: [code] pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 8192 rate 44100 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.dmixer { type hw card 0 } pcm.intel8x0 { type hw card 0 } ctl.intel8x0 { type hw card 0 } [/code]
don't emerge alsa-xmms 0.9.12. an alsa plugin is already included in xmms! and try upgrading to xmms-1.2.10.
John, did the xmms-included alsa plugin fix your problem?
closing due to lack of response from submitter.
