whats your sound card ?
i have an on-board SIS-713 or somthing like that, i used to use alsa with that fine, although now ive dissabled it in the bios, and am using a PCI sound card.

it worked fine, no static.

just make sure none of the alsa-mixer volume channels are in the red, and sound wasnt bad... although it only supported 2 cannels (which is why i replaced it)

its stange you have this problem, alsa ive found was much better than OSS.. which is why OSS is being dumped.

oh well.. aslong as all is wokring for you now.

LMAO,,,,,,,,,IF you don't want to use Alsa then UN-install any and all ALSA crap from your system!!
easy as that...........

lol.

I get rid of the static in kde by turning off IEC958 in kmix,when I use fluxbox I have no problem,also I don't enable the sound in kde control center.

year, arts is a pain !

Need to remove OSS and use only ALSA
 

Hmm, my sound is working but only 2 channesl and it is using i810_audio. I do not want that, I want ALSA and I tried installALSAO (1.05a) but could not 'modprobe snd-intel8x0' errors showing somethings like wrong parms, I cannot understand why.

How can 'remove' i810_audio from the kernel ???
Thanks.
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Gigabyte Nforce2 Pro2 Rev2 ALC655 Realtek Onboard Audio
Fedora Core 1.

Never mind. I decided to fresh install FC 2 and now no more i810_audio. It seems to exist in FC1 and when I upgraded to FC2 it is still there somewhere that I could not locate, remove or unload.