I am getting weird feedback/static/echo when ever sound is played through Steam or a game/program launched through steam. I did not have this problem before I enabled dsnoop however before dsnoop was enable I was not able to use my mic in external programs while using them in game. Dsnoop is the dmix for input devices. I have tested every game I have on Steam and they all have the same problem. I also decided to try games that I have that are not launched through steam and every single one of them works perfectly. However if I add them as a non steam game and launch them through steam I get this issue. I even tested it with non steam games such as VLC. VLC works great when I run it by itself but when I add it to steam and launch though it I get this issue also. SO my guess is this is steam related and not game related. I am using the awesome window manager and have a GTX 550ti
My .asoundrc
This config allows me to use my mic in multiple applications and multiple applications can also use my speakers. I do not have any problems in any other applications with this config.
pcm.!default
{
type plug
slave.pcm "mix"
}
pcm.mix {
type asym
playback.pcm
{
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
capture.pcm
{
type plug
slave.pcm "dsnoopin"
}
}
pcm.dsnoopin {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 5978293
ipc_key_add_uid yes
slave {
pcm "hw:2,0"
channels 2
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
periods 0
period_time 0
}
bindings {
0 0
0 1
}
}
Old asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type asym
playback.pcm
{
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
capture.pcm
{
type plug
slave.pcm "usb"
}
}
pcm.usb
{
type hw
card U0x46d0x81d
}
System Information
Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: 0x10
CPU Model: 0x4
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2600 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Unsupported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
"Arch Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.10.9-1-ARCH
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11402000
X Window Manager: Awesome
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2013-09-05
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 325.15
OpenGL Version: 4.3
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1244
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18.78" x 10.55" (21.54" diag)
47.7cm x 26.8cm (54.7cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC888
Memory:
RAM: 7988 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1629185 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 395573 Mb
Installed software:
Recent Failure Reports:
Fri Sep 6 23:57:24 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130906165722_4.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0abeec7b-80cb-499f-9c89-07deb2130906''
Fri Sep 6 23:57:24 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130906165722_7.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-c06536d4-93c3-42b1-ad29-6642f2130906''
Fri Sep 6 23:57:24 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130906165722_5.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-eb1d5f62-0e90-4bd7-b2ee-af9352130906''
Fri Sep 6 23:57:24 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130906165722_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-e146f2c4-2e9a-4552-980f-efb0a2130906''
Fri Sep 6 23:57:25 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130906165724_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-3635545e-1efe-43a9-93e8-ac2282130906''
Fri Sep 6 23:57:25 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130906165724_4.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-b7acd0ac-c26a-42a4-9771-968ae2130906''
Sat Sep 7 05:48:59 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130906224856_1.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''
Sat Sep 7 05:49:12 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130906224910_1.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''
Sat Sep 7 06:04:05 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130906230322_1.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''
Fixed it I think. Will do more testing
Then change my asoundrc to
Original Issue
I am getting weird feedback/static/echo when ever sound is played through Steam or a game/program launched through steam. I did not have this problem before I enabled dsnoop however before dsnoop was enable I was not able to use my mic in external programs while using them in game. Dsnoop is the dmix for input devices. I have tested every game I have on Steam and they all have the same problem. I also decided to try games that I have that are not launched through steam and every single one of them works perfectly. However if I add them as a non steam game and launch them through steam I get this issue. I even tested it with non steam games such as VLC. VLC works great when I run it by itself but when I add it to steam and launch though it I get this issue also. SO my guess is this is steam related and not game related. I am using the awesome window manager and have a GTX 550ti
My .asoundrc
This config allows me to use my mic in multiple applications and multiple applications can also use my speakers. I do not have any problems in any other applications with this config.
Old asoundrc
System Information