Hello, I am using Gentoo, with the 2.4.26 kernel. I am using the ALSA drivers, as well as the Gnome desktop, with Xorg. My problem is that when I try to play music through XMMS or play a movie in Mplayer, the sound is bad. It skips, and is constantly scratchy, though it peaks when I open another program or move a window around. Under KDE on a past distro with the same (or at least close to in terms of the version) kernel, I could thwart this problem by adjusting the audio buffer. But Gnome doesn't seem to have this option. How can I adjust this manually? I've heard before that this problem has to do with X11 messing with the audio buffer, but I'm not quite sure...

Could you give some more info,,, Specifically your audio hardware...

Gary

My sound card is an M Audio Delta 44. I'm using v 1.0.6 of the ALSA driver. I recently had to replace my motherboard. My last board had onboard sound, and I still had the same issues with that, so I don't think it's much of a hardware issue.