Re: Sound bug in 2.1/2.2 kernels?

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:29:43 -0500 (EST)


Steve Bergman enscribed thusly:
> I have noticed this before but was just reminded of it. When I am running
> realplayer 5.0 (realaudio) and the network stream is congested enough that it
> has to stop and rebuffer, I always get an error 1 (general unknown error) and
> when I quit the application I get:

> Audio write error. 480 bytes error #11
> Audio write error. 736 bytes error #11
> Audio write error. 426 bytes error #11
> Audio write error. 898 bytes error #0

That's a known bug in realaudio. There is a shim replacement for
"open" that can be preloaded in front of realaudio to work around the
problem until realaudio gets fixed.

Seems like I found the errata up on the ReadAudio site and downloaded
the fix from a link that they provided.

> or something similar. This does not happen with the commercial OSS. I am using
> a sound blaster 16 isa which is not pnp. I don't remember having this problem
> with 2.0 kernels but it's been a long time since I have used 2.0.x. Though I
> have been using the commercial drivers, it would be nice to be able to use the
> free drivers and of course I would be glad to test any fixes.

There was a change in the kernels, but the change was to correct
incorrect behavior. Sorry, I don't remember the details.

> -Steve

Mike

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