Good {morning,afternoon,evening},
I installed FC4 on my computer a few days ago. Previously, the computer
had FC3 on it, and sound worked perfectly. Now I have a strange problem
with FC4. It's a clean FC4 installation with some FreshRPMs packages.
If I play an MP3 file with totem or RealPlayer, it plays fine. If I play
a WAV file with the command-line "play" command, it also works fine.
However, I noticed that if I run a game like Frozen Bubble, or Supertux,
then the sound is distorted. I also have my thunderbird configured to
play a WAV file when new email comes in, and whenever thunderbird plays
this file, the sound is distorted, exactly like it is with the games.
I tried a couple of things, I noticed that if I run:
play /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
it plays fine. If instead I run:
esdplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
the sound is distorted.
Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong here and how I could fix
it? What's the difference between "play" and "esdplay", and why might
esdplay be producing distorted sounds?
Anand
