Re: linux sound problems

Dear XEmacs Developers, There are two known issues with xemacs sound under linux: 1. The problem with 64-bit distros that Hans de Graaff described to me here a few days ago. 2. A system volume control problem which I reported over a year ago and is apparently still unfixed. See the copy of the bug report at the end of this post. If someone "official" would sanction it, I would be willing to donate my time in finding and fixing bug 2 and handling whatever else is necessary to get both bugs into the next release. However, I won't do it without first getting authorization since I'd like any time I spend to "count."

From: Randy Yates <yates(a)ieee.org&gt; Subject: [Bug: 21.4.19] XEmacs Sounds Modulate System Volume Under Alsa and FC4 To: XEmacs Beta <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:17:01 -0400 Organization: The Universal Church of Christ ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! Everytime XEmacs plays a sound, the Alsa mixer volume is increased momentarily for the duration of the sound (e.g., drum, whip, etc.). This causes the volume from other PCM music sources (e.g., the xmms player) that may be active at the time to be modulated up and down. The amount of the volume change is significant and is very irritating. This behaviour also makes the sound XEmacs is playing very loud, in addition to increasing the volume (momentarily) of the other PCM sound sources. Specifically, if you start the gnome-volume-control application to monitor the mixer settings, you will find under the playback tab there are two volume sliders: Master and PCM. When XEmacs emits a sound, you can visually see the PCM volume being momentarily increased. (If the sound is short, a change in the slider position may not happen every time the sound is played - try it several times). If you could look into this and repair it, or give me suggestions on how it can be avoided, I would be thankful. --Randy Yates A long-time XEmacs user PS: To all the XEmacs team: Thank you for a WONDERFUL editor! --RY ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux ./configure XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. 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