FC4 poor sound with gnome - kde ok

[Jonathan Berry]

On 6/25/05, mal <malcolm at interele.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a PC with an Intel High Defination Audio ( RealTek Azalia ) sound
> chip
> 
> If I use gnome the sound is very poor -  it  has clicks and crackles
> when ever there is sound
> - it's not there when the sound is quiet or silent
> 
> If I start with KDE and use the control panel to set the kde sound
> system as OSS  the
> sound is perfect
> 
> ... the problems is I don't want to use kde
> 
> 
> has anyone any ideas - is this an alsa problem  - I previous post
> suggested playing with the mixer
> but I've tweaked every setting in the alsa mixer I can find to no avail
> 
> thanks
> 
> mal

Hi Mal,
It seems to be ESD.  ALSA works fine for me, but stuff like event
sounds was crackly like you described.  This fixed my problem:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg03756.html
You also might checkout the follow up to it.

Jonathan