sound sample?

[Pyrosophy]

Strange one here. I'm trying to diagnose a problem in Gnome where when a system sound plays, it sounds like lots of static is in the background.

So I run sndconfig, and it asks me if I can hear a sample. I can here something that vaguely sounds like someone putting out an APB on a police radio. Is this right? What is the guy supposed to be saying?

Facts:
* Mandrake 7.2 (sigh)
* CD and MP3 sound is crystal clear out of XMMS.
* SBLive card w/good speakers. Running kernel 2.2.18 and it won't let me compile and patch with the latest emu10k1 patch. (which might be another problem...)

Any ideas? Thanks.

Pyro

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[ph34r]

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Is the sample.au file that Redhat uses for sndconfig.

[Linuxman]

Do you have any other electronic devices nearby, e.g., radio, CD player. I had some distortion in my computer sound when I was listening to the radio last weekend, which radio is about three feet away from my box.

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[ansivirus]

I've never had any interference from the radio that sits right next to my box but I do get interference when I use my cell phone within 2-3 feet of the computer.. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

-ansivirus

[Pyrosophy]

Thanks for the notes everyone. I can now safely conclude that I have no idea what is going on. I was really hoping you guys would say that the sample was a policeman talking on a CB in a helicopter.

According to windows, my sblive has a non-standard IRQ (12). sndconfig, though, doesn't let me set the values -- it just jumps right to the testing phase, and then like an idiot, starts the process over when i report i didn't hear the sample. I noticed that if i select another soundcard, it does let me select the values.

Does anyone know what command sndconfig uses to play the file sample.au? Is it esdplay?

Thanks again,
Pyro

[ph34r]

# play /usr/local/share/sndconfig/sample.au

There is also a sample.mdi or .midi or .mid there also to test midi stuff.

And, the sound sample is somewhat unclear anyway...