Hello,

I am using openSuSE 11.0 (upgraded from 10.3), with KDE 3.5.

Since my upgrade, my sound seems to "stutter" a lot -- especially when KDE is starting. It almost sound like a "machine gun".

I went into "Personal Settings", shut off full duplex for the audio (which is set to auto-detect), made the sound buffer "As large as possible", with "Runtime Priority".

I used to occasionally have a similar problem with 10.3, but the sound would stutter 2 or 3 times when KDE was starting -- not "machine gun".

This is on a 10-year old machine, with the original sound card.

Any thoughts on where I should be looking?

Thanks

It is easy to tell someone else to do a clean install of openSUSE when you are not the one that must go back and setup everything again, even some things you don't quite remember how you got them that way in the first place. None the less, it is the best course of action if an upgrade made things worse. If you can't go back, then you need to go forward.

I also did an upgrade at first and ran into an odd issue with my screen saver among other things. It would only start if I changed the time before it started and saved it. Then, the screensaver in openSUSE 11 would work fine until I rebooted. After a restart, the screensaver would not start again until I changed and saved the time before it started. There were other odd things as well.

So, I did a clean install and everything works just fine now and I feel it seems faster than when I did an upgrade, but not sure how to prove that really. Still, I think a clean install is your best bet.

Thank You,

I had similar effects when playing a very old TV card (Hauppage WIN TV with line in).

You need to fiddle around with various settings -- KMIX doesn't show all the sliders by default.

Switch off things like Front Mike and it should work. It fixed my TV sound card problem.


Other solutions might be to change some of the technical settings --there are other posts on that but try the simple things first.

Cheers
-K

A clean install was a thought -- but as you mentioned, I got a lot of stuff working, which I don't know how quickly I'd be able to get working again...

This is a "play" machine that I'm on -- I would eventually like to purchase or build a state-of-the-art machine & load SuSE on that. The way that I'm trying to evaluate the success (or failure) of the product (in my eyes) is how well it runs on older equipment. Minimal problems on an older system should equate to one heck of a system on modern hardware