I haven't tried 8.10 yet and I think it is a good thing I didn't upgrade yet 😀
Which sound system are they using this time ? Are still on that pulseaudio stuff ?
for dosbox you could try experimenting with the blocksize and the prebuffer size.

Qbix wrote:

I haven't tried 8.10 yet and I think it is a good thing I didn't upgrade yet 😀
Which sound system are they using this time ? Are still on that pulseaudio stuff ?
for dosbox you could try experimenting with the blocksize and the prebuffer size.

I also used to have these problems after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. 8.10 is crap ... 😒 Therefore I have switched to Debian Lenny recently. No sound problems any more -- and countless other non-dosbox related problems have disappeared as well.

Well I can't switch back to 8.04 because my fglrx driver never worked in Linux until I upgraded to 8.10. Now I actually have 3D graphics for games and can use Compiz etc. So that's too important to lose.

Hmmm. Maybe it's Compiz that's doing it.

EDIT: Bingo. It was Compiz. Works fine in Metacity.

Has anyone found a workaround? I am using 9.04 and the sound still skips.

Read kruwi's reply.

But I like ubuntu 🙁

I think I have a solution after some tinkering. 😀

Lowering the mixer's rate in dosbox.conf greatly reduces the amount skiping. I used "rate=11025". "rate=5513" works as well but sound quality is greatly diminished.

Resolved this but setting output freq. to 44,100 KHz in DOSBox .conf file, Ubuntu 9.10.

Think you have to match your system output.