Audio garbled when video is displayed

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 03:09:54 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> This is a strange one.  When I play video with flash in Firefox on 6.1,
> as long as I keep the video covered the audio plays fine.  When the
> video is shown the audio sounds garbled.  Also, if the video is covered
> and I move any window or application on the desktop, the audio pops and
> spits.  I'm using two gForce FX-5200 cards in Xinerama mode.  It appears
> that ANY movement on my desktop makes the audio garbled.  Here are my
> loaded audio modules:
>
> snd_emu10k1_synth       8960  0
> snd_emux_synth         39296  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi         8576  1 snd_emux_synth
> af_packet              24584  0
> snd_seq_midi_emul       8192  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_dummy           4996  0
> snd_seq_oss            36480  0
> snd_seq_midi            9984  0
> snd_seq_midi_event      8960  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                59120  9
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,
>snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_emu10k1           128288  3
> snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_rawmidi            27264  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
> snd_ac97_codec         97696  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_ac97_bus            3456  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss            47360  0
> snd_mixer_oss          19584  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                84612  4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_device          9868  8
> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd
>_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_timer              25348  3
> snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            6016  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep              10756  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd                    58372  16
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,
>snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,sn
>d_hwdep
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P

I have the same problem, and its mainly with the Nvidia proprietary driver I 
think.  If you do not run the Nvidia Prop. driver your sound probably works 
great.

If you find a solution post a link or directions here, as I'd love to have 
decent sound in some games.

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!