Re: [pygame] Can't get clean sound!

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:18:44AM +0200, John Eriksson wrote:
> Ghaaaa!
> 
> I give up! Even after reading all mails about sound problems and trying
> every single suggestion I can't get the sound to be played clean.
> 
> I've tested both PyGame apps and other SDL-based applications and the
> sound is still crackling. When using non-SDL applications teher are no
> sound problems.
> 
> There are some improvement when using "export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd" but
> then there is a delay before the sound is played.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
> 
> Don't really know how to determine what kind of hardware I'm using but I
> know it's an Intel on-board sound chip of some sort. I have a laptop
> Dell Latitude D820.  And I didn't have any problems with the sound
> before upgrading to Feisty Fawn.
> 
> Can someone please help me??? 
> 
> If not, can I use some other python sound API?
> 
> Best Regards
> /John
> 

To find out exactly what sound chip you have, open a terminal and type: 
lspci

Do any of these threads help?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=294732
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=421507

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James Paige