Sound problems on FC3

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Chadley Wilson wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I have looked around on Googs and got a whole lot of noise about flacky
>sound. Well I have a funny one here, I hope some one can guide me
>through a fix.
>
>The very first mp3 I play plays. (that would be using xmms with alsa oss
>esd etc..) the second one jams up the sound, so if I let track 1 play to
>the end and auto  start track 2 or if I double click track 2 , I hope
>that makes sense to you as it does to me.
>
>If I then try to play an mp3 or system sounds its almost as if it hangs,
>not the PC just sound, if I adjust PCM or MASTER in gnome volume control
>it crackles. 
>And then even restarting sound services does not help.
>
>What I find super strange is yesterday it was fine. and apart from a few
>docs worked on nothing has changed on my system. 
>
>I have also booted it with knoppix and sound is perfect.
>
>How can I proceed to diagnose the problem?
>
>Thanks for any responses in advance.
>
>Chadley
>
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What's your soundcard brand and model? It looks to me that your card is 
missing HW mixing in the ALSA drivers. If in case of an on-board card, 
please state which.