ZSNES, Staticy Sound, FC4

jlacroix · 06-14-2005, 10:50 PM

Hello everyone, I am desperately trying to figure this out, I never had this problem with any other Fedora version, or any Linux distro for that matter. I am using FC4 final, and ZSNES has really staticy sound, its very annoying. I use Gnome, don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any ideas?

mooman_fl · 06-15-2005, 01:33 AM

First of all, what sound card are you using? That might make a difference.

MikeZila · 06-15-2005, 05:58 AM

Yes. What sound card are you using, and more importantly, what sound system? OSS or ALSA?

Something to try regardless is to change the frequency zSnes is mixing it's sound. You can find that in the config panel. Try changing it up or down. You card may not handle some frequencies very well.

jlacroix · 06-15-2005, 08:05 PM

I am using a soundblaster card with 4.1 surround. Every other distro handles this well, FC4 is the only one with the problem and its the same sound card on all the distro's I tried. Even tried the same package.

How do I change the sound server? I use Gnome, is there a way I can even find out what one I am using right now?

miguelmm · 06-21-2005, 11:56 PM

I have the same problem, I've been using fedora since core 1 but now (core 4) gives me problems with sound in some games like neverball and ppracer.
I'm using ALSA.
The problem doesn't show when using xmms, or the test sound of soundcard detection.
If anyone has the solutions please post.
Thanks!

Staceman · 06-26-2005, 07:46 PM

I'm having a similar problem with Fedora Core 4 and ZSNES. The sound is lagging pretty badly, but the games run full speed. If you hit escape to get the GUI, it takes the sound a few seconds to stop.

Earlier this week, on the same machine, I had Mandriva Linux installed, and ZSNES ran fine with it.

I've tried lowering the mixing rate, disabling things like stereo and such, to no avail.

Staceman · 06-26-2005, 08:07 PM

Well whaddya know, I've found the solution from another thread...

Add the following two lines to your .bash_profile:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER

Log out, and log back in. Worked for me.