Clean Gentoo Install + Necessary Libs = Problems still

I just finished doing a 2008.0 LiveCD install from the GUI installer, and I selected to do all the basics. The reason why I went with Gentoo was due to Ubuntu 8.04 not wanting to play nicely with SL at all. The sound was jittery. It felt like I was running SL with a compile job in the back.

Well, I gave up on Ubuntu and did the Gentoo route. I got OpenAL, gstreamer + plugins, esound, alsa-lib, etc so that SL will run without a hitch.

Well sound is actually perfectly fine in terms of listening, but I get absolutely no connection at all to the sound servers. That is a regression. Ubuntu didn't let me hear or talk. But it did indeed connect (and disconnect, and connect again).

For some reason, I cannot connect whatsoever to the sound server. Why is that?

This is a clean install, and I ran SL from a vanilla startx. Nothing should conflict.

Does anyone know what could cause SL to not want to connect at all to vivox's system?I would love to be able to hear people again.

I have now gotten everything working. My biggest problem now is the lag.

How can I eliminate this sound lag? It lags behind my client by at least .5 seconds. Now I have voice, clean sound, and everything. I just need to eliminate the lag.

I'm assuming you are doing a complete standalone build then and using all the distro supplied libraries. If so something you need to watch is c-ares or libcares or what ever your distro calls it. Depending on how it was built it might still block DNS lookups and this will cause lag and or pauses. The Lindens offical cares is built so this is not a problem but i know for a fact the debian c-ares has this issue. A quick a dirty workaround is to install bind and use it as a local caching DNS server this prevents many little glitches for me.

M2