Creative PC128 sounds like bacon frying

leonardo38 · 02-17-2006, 03:08 AM

Hi guys,
I am dual booting Fedora core 4.0 and Mandriva 2006 on two H/D/s
My sound card is a creative soundblaster PC128 which works fine on Mandriva but on the Fedora it sounds like bacon frying (white noise, and lots of it).
What am I doing wrong?
My mainboard is an ECS L7K7A2 with a 2Gig Duron CPU plus 512 megs og good quality RAM.
Any help would be appreciated.

sklitzz · 02-17-2006, 05:55 AM

Try running alsaconfig and alsamixer

leonardo38 · 02-18-2006, 08:45 AM

Hi Sklitzz

Thanks for the info, alsamixer works great, however alsaconfif typed into a terminal window gives:-
'command not found.'
Am I missing out on something??

leonardo38

sklitzz · 02-18-2006, 12:06 PM

You need to be root to run alsaconfig.
You don't need to run it if alsamixer did the job.

Glad I helped

w6bi · 02-19-2006, 01:04 AM

The ALSA driver implements a lot of new inputs on cards. I've found that a lot of these wind up enabled, with gain cranked up all the way. That ends up injecting noise into the sound system.

Regardless of which mixer you use, disable all unused inputs, and turn the others down, until you eliminate the hiss.

leonardo38 · 02-19-2006, 05:49 AM

Hi Guys,

Sklitzz, Yes I was in 'root', but still a lot of 'white noise' only from the powered speaker. Proximity to other cables considered but not a problem with 'Mandriva'.

w6bi, If I wind the volume right down on the powered speaker the 'white noise' becomes acceptable. As others have said, the problem is with the hardware producers not doing enough for Linux

Thanks for the info to each of you.

leonardo38