I have a strange problem with my soundcard (Terrtec EWS 24/96) under SuSE 9.1 for AMD 64.
When i play an audio file (mp3/wave/ogg) the playback is faster than it should be, which is at best annoying. Also when im playing video files the sound is fast but also broken up. I presume this is because the audio is synced to the video timeline.
I have tried different sound system configurations, ALSA, OSS, OSS Threaded and this makes no difference. I have tried selecting 16 bit and a custom bitrate of 44.1khz, again no solution. I reconfigured my ALSA driver using alsaconf, still no results.
I have been using this card with every release of SuSE 32 bit since 8.1 and had no problems at all, i was running 9.0 for 32bit on my AMD64 and that worked fine too.
This is all leading me to beleive that it has something to do with the AMD64 version of SuSE.
Ive tried googling, the SuSE support database (which isnt much use to be honest), and trawling through all the threads on here and still no joy. Im out of ideas basically, so any ideas would be most welcome.
Thanks in advance.

I have the VIA Envy24 soundcard that comes with chaintechs Znf3-250 motherboard. I don't know what I need to do to get this card working? Could you help me please? Right now I have no sound and I think I need to find the right driver for it. I'm running suse 9.1 for the athlon64 3200+. Thanks for any help.

Dont panic just yet

When i first installed 9.1 i had no sound either. One thing i know from experience is that the only mixer programs bundled with SuSE that work with my card (thats not to say all envy24 chipsets ) are alsamixer and alsamixergui. but this time alsaixergui which i use most of the time didnt seem to have any effect.but i managed to get sound using alsamixer.
try this ...

open a terminal and type alsamixer
this will open a mixer program in the terminal window.
now theres a lot of different faders in here .. and 99% of them seem to do very little.
I'm prestty sure that you're looking for DAC & DAC1. you can scroll along using left and right arrows to highlight each fader in turn then use the up and down arrows to adjust the level. Once you've found them and turned them up a bit, try playing some sound before you quit out.
If you can hear it, then click back in the terminal window and press escape, this should save the settings.

If you click ----> here ive done a screenshot so you can see exactly what im going on about.

If it doesnt work, post again and i'll think some more

Good Luck

Hi!

same problems with Mandrake 10.1 community beta2 for AMD64

KDE system sounds work, but not the applications, like XMMS.
The first problem was with arts.
It keeps the sound busy and I've had to set up the applications to use arts output.

But even doing this, i keep on having problems:

* XMMS: installed plugin, works, but the audio is not flowing with his normal speed, It's faster than normal
* Xine: works, but fast, and the sound ha a lot of micro-interruptions
* Amarok: still doesn't work
* Audacity: works as XMMS

someone's just telling me that fast playing could be a problem due to a particular setting of the driver, which locks the sampling frequency to 44.1 khz but... I'm reading that you,ve just tried this way

Don't know how to do...

Hi,
Well since i posted my last reply on this, i have re-installed SuSE and guess what, in true linux fashion, my sound is perfect.
I have had this before with various issues over the years ... you install and something doesnt work, you re-install ... do everything the same and you couldnt get the same problem if you tried
I have no fix for you other than to suggest maybe try re-installing ... it worked for me.
hope it helps.

Hi,

The following command may help:

amixer set 'Multi Track Rate Locking' off

By default in SuSE 9.1 envy24 is locked at 48000
I found this using envy24control utility

Regards,
Alexander

THANKS! THANKS!

It works!!!
THANKS!!!

For all Mandrake users, in Community Edition 10.1, I found the same option in Kmixer, in the advanced panel
there are three options related to the multi track rate, and it's ok disabling the "multi track rate locking"
The video playback also works fine!

I've trouble only with a 48.000 khz song, which sounds really really bad (ok under WinXP)
all the other songs have a lower rate, and work fine

now that I've sound, I'll be able to use Linux more frequently than Windows... yesssssssssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!

This sadly is not working for me. I have put in a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 into my box running SuSE 9.1 Professional. The motherboard has an integrated VT82XX driver that ran everything previously. Now, some things (XMMS, RealAudio) work. There is a weird lag with getting XMMS to run. However, Amarok does not play out. Nor does Flash sound work in the browsers (Konqueror, Firefox). Homestarrunner has been rendered, uh, dumb. My first guess was OSS emulation, but recompiling the drivers with --oss=yes did not seem to help. (Do the modules not load automatically?) The rate tracking fix doesn't seem to do it either. Does anyone know what might be up?

Oliver

I had the same problem with mandrake 10.1, thanks for the fix.