Scratchy Sound FC4

[Ian Burrell]

Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons <at> tmcaz.com> writes:
> 
> I have installed FC 4 on my workstation and have brought it
> “up 2 date” so I am current. It is working perfectly in every way
> but one. The sound is horrible! 
> 
> I have Googled extensively and have found that I am not the
> only one experiencing the problem. I have yet to find a solution, though. I am
> hoping that the solution is known by someone on the list and I can get this
> fixed. 
> 

For me, the problem was that sound going through ESD sounded distorted.  The fix
was to go through and change apps to use ALSA directly.  FC4 automatically
configures dmix plugin for soundcards that need it so multiple programs can talk
to the sound card simultaneously.  XMMS definitely has an ALSA plugin.

There are a few apps which don't work with ALSA.  The ones I trouble with were
games which use SDL.  For those, I followed the advice in a bug report and
upgraded to the esound from rawhide, version 0.2.36.

The bugs are:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158571,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140999

 - Ian