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.
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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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