Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (64 mails)

[ray hartman <rayh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 14:00, Tony Jones wrote:
> Specs:
>
> 333 Mhz AMD K6-2 with 352 MB of SDRAM, Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370
> SuSE 7.3 Personal Edition
>
> I purchased OSS sound drivers thinking they'd fix my clicky sound in
> Quake 3.  But I see that my computer had ALSA running and OpenAL and an
> artsd server that should've allowed several sounds to be played at the
> same time.  When I was playing Quake 3 the sounds would interrupt each
> other.  All I did to install OSS was use the install script and use
> /usr/local/bin/soundon to turn the sound on *ahem*.  I purchased the
> license for the software as well.
>
> My questions are. is OSS really better than ALSA/OpenAL?  And what
> tweaks do I need to do for better clearer sound (no clicking) and
> automatic startup (the instructions included in OSS don't address Suse'
> file structure.
>
>
> Tony Jones

Tony:

I bet, with that K-6 you could drop in an AMD-450 for a very few bucks. THAT 
itself might solve the "clicks".

ray hartman