Sound is terrible!

65_289 · 10-21-2003, 12:51 PM

I'm running an old SB Live Value card. I'm using the ALSA 0.9.6 that came with Slack. I ran alsaconf, alsamixer to adjust settings, and alsactl store to store the settings. Problem is all the sounds have static/distortion. It's so bad I can barely understand the words on most of my MP3's. Any ideas?

trickykid · 10-21-2003, 02:24 PM

Try disabling the alsa drivers/modules and using others, like the emu10k if it supports your card, etc.

65_289 · 10-21-2003, 02:26 PM

Update: It only does it in KDE. If I just stay in command-line mode, it sounds fine. I'm going to try GNOME & see if it messes it up too.

65_289 · 10-21-2003, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by trickykid
Try disabling the alsa drivers/modules and using others, like the emu10k if it supports your card, etc.

Forgive the newbie question, but how do I do that?

IRIGHTI · 10-22-2003, 11:36 AM

I had this problem too only in onboard sound. When you go into alsamixer only unmute:

Master
PCM

If you do any of the other ones I got a horrible sound.

Make sure you up the volume too.

65_289 · 10-22-2003, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by IRIGHTI
I had this problem too only in onboard sound. When you go into alsamixer only unmute:

Master
PCM

If you do any of the other ones I got a horrible sound.

Make sure you up the volume too.

Thanks! It sounds 100% better now!

DeadPuddle · 10-27-2003, 12:54 AM

I've tried everything I've seen on the LQ boards and can't get sound working right. I get static most of the time during songs/videos. trickykid, how would I go about changing sound modules as you said in this thread?

lsmod output

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ntfs                   51040   1  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            37252   1
snd-mixer-oss          11992   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc             14724   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6752   0  (autoclean)
parport                23264   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
i810_rng                2656   0  (unused)
uhci                   24496   0  (unused)
usbcore                58400   1  [uhci]
snd-intel8x0           17156   1
snd-pcm                55904   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer              13252   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         37240   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-page-alloc          6004   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart         3136   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            12512   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3920   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd                    27460   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3332   3  [snd]
tulip                  40928   1
crc32                   2880   0  [tulip]
pcmcia_core            40032   0
ide-scsi                9424   0
agpgart                39576   0  (unused)

DeadPuddle · 10-28-2003, 02:06 AM

lspci output:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)

DeadPuddle · 10-28-2003, 11:17 PM

In case this is needed in the future, to fix the static problem, I went into KDE Control Center, selected Sound & Multimedia, selected Sound System, and set arts to load ALSA instead of Autodetect.