Hi, I am experiencing some strange problem with sound playback in my FC5 box. I didn't experience any problem during installation and sound card detection went fine too. The problem is like this: 1) Currently I installed 'xmms' and its mp3 plugin for sound check but playback is skipping some part of the music every few seconds (few seconds of music is skipped ahead). 2) Initially I thought the mp3 decoder is the culprit since it is not supported in fedora. So I tried to play back the 'wave' sound but to my surprise the playback is still skipping some portion of music. 3) Now I uninstalled the whole thing thinking the xmms for FC5 might have bug. Installed 'amarok' and installed the 'xine' libraries as suggested. This time 'amarok' hangs when trying to playback the sound. 4) So I tried to listen to internet radio (nothing related to mp3) but 'amarok' still hangs when it tries to playback sound. 5) Just to check, i installed the 'mplayer' and necessary plugins & codecs. Tried playing back movie. Again to my surprise, the movie playback is ok (i mean sound too) with only small problem that sound needs to be panned to either left or right for me to hear loud sound as expected. Putting it in the middle cancels out the left channel and right channel's sound and I can't hear the sound properly. 6) By the way my sound card is VIA8235 onboard sound card. The soundcard detection gives me following output: ---------------- Vendor: VIA Model: Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller Module: snd-via82xx Default PCM Device: VIA 8235 ---------------------------- Now i tried to check sound here but unlike the first boot sound check, it has problem playing back sound. It plays the sound but it can't progress and hangs for few seconds, which gives the illusion of echoing. Can this be the driver problem? or sound server problem? I heard that FC5 can mix several sounds like in windows unlike previous releases of fedora, can this be the problem? I know my sound card doesn't have any problem because I am using dual boot and it works perfectly in windows. And also that prior to installation of FC5, i had tried the SUSE 10 and amarok there can playback the mp3 nicely. Does anybody have this kind of problem? Any Idea, solution, pointers? Thanks!
