[SLE] Choppy sound in 9.3 wiht SB Live24

From: Clayton (smaug42_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/31/05

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    OK, I'm running out of ideas. I've been trying to figure out why I
    get choppy sound in some multimedia (but not all) when I play via my
    SoundBlaster Live24. (OS = fully updated SuSE9.3)

    I have and onboard AC/97 sound card. Sound from all media plays fine
    if I use the onboard sound card (using any media player... MPlayer,
    Realplayer etc.)

    If I switch over to my SB Live24 sound plays fine from some media, and
    others it's so choppy you can't listen to it. I have done a lot of
    Googling to try and find a solution... based on what I found it seems
    that it could be related to ACPI... so here's a few things I did to
    try and clear it up....

     - with ACPI on, if I do a rcpowersaved stop, I get about a 75%
    improvement in sound quality (less choppy sound but still bad enough
    you can't use it).

     - with ACPI=off on boot, I still get the same choppy sound as with it
    on. Doing an rcpowersaved stop has a marginal effect, but nowhere
    near as much as when ACPI is on. Seems kind of odd to me, but that's
    what happens.

     - I've removed ACPI related packages, but that had no effect on the
    choppy sound.

    Through all of this, my onboard AC/97 works the same... it works with
    no choppy sound.

    I don't want to use my AC/97 as my main sound - I'd like to reserve
    that for my VoIP. I really woudl like to solve this, but am out of
    ideas for what could be the root cause of my choppy sound issue.

    Anyone have any ideas at all here? Anything I could try?

    C 

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