I appreciate all the suggestions.  I'm not actively working on this problem
at the moment, so please don't waste any more time replying.  When I look at
it again, I'll look through the resources suggested here.  Thanks everyone.

--- chip33az@netscape.net wrote:

> Have you looked at 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix to set up the 
> sound card correctly?
> 
> My understanding is that the Gstreamer plugins are necessary to get the 
> correct codecs to play.  Rhythmbox doesn't know how to play anything, so 
> it relies on Gstreamer to decode the files (mp3, ogg, etc).  Gstreamer 
> then hands it over to ALSA to play the file. 
> 
> There is an Amarok faq that talks about this.
> 
> alexanderhenry@cox.net wrote:
> > chip33az@netscape.net wrote:
> >> Do you have gst-plugins-gnomevfs installed?
> >>
> >> I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but Rhythmbox is dependent on 
> >> the gstreamer program (as are most Gnome media applications).  I 
> >> would verify that you have the gstreamer plug-ins installed.
> >>
> >
> > Default ALSA works for me, as long as I set the volume up.
> >
> > A suggestion may be that you don't have the right sound driver 
> > compiled in your kernel, then the right configuration (in Linux, not 
> > setting the volume in ALSA above zero is a cliche).
> >
> > The RTFM's should be approached in this order, first Google the 
> > gentoo.org website, then gentoo-wiki, then the web itself for exact 
> > error messages, then try the #gentoo* chatrooms on freenet.  I've 
> > always landed an answer on one or another, and there's just more 
> > expertise out there than on the PLUG list.  I even managed to break 
> > portage once at 2am while drunk, and got it back on track with help 
> > from the chat rooms to continue my emerge -e world.  (I was doing 
> > something extreme.  I never learned how to re-link gcc when it 
> > updates, so everything was emerged with a very old gcc, not to mention 
> > non-athlon t-bird settings, so I had to recompile everything.  I 
> > didn't start this procedure while drunk, it just got interrupted while 
> > I was drunk 8).
> >
> > The safe flags can be found here:  http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags
> >
> > I've never debugged sound to a large degree, so I have no suggestions 
> > other than the research order.
> >
> > I'm trying compiles with -Os.  I'm thinking, what's faster, a loop 
> > in-cache which jumps and misses a few cycles in a jump, or a 1000-time 
> > unrolled loop which always misses cache?  I have no evidence, but hey 
> > I can do it, so I do :).
> >
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