Audio garbled when video is displayed

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 10:51:51 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> I actually don't think I'm running the proprietary driver because I
> don't see the nVidia splash screen when X starts up.

Neither do I.

if you open a shell and enter:

sudo lsmod | grep nvidia

you'll either confirm my guess by seeing the nvidia modules, or confirm me 
wrong by seeing nothing.  (unless someone knows of a different name for the 
nvidia module.)

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Howard Coles Jr.
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