Hi!
The integrated sound card is deactivated. Now i tried do play a mp3 using mplayer -srate 48000
mplayer upsampels the file, but the nasty cracking 's still there. I dont know from where it comes.

If the crackling really is caused by the wrong frequency then I'm not quite sure how to fix it, since it seems that whenever you tell it to use a different one it doesn't. So I'm not sure how to help, unfortunately.

Okay, nevertheless, thanks for your help. Perhaps i've to sell this card and buy a new one, do you know a good one?

Well I would be curious if you tried Arts to see if it would work - but that would probably require installing several components of KDE, which you may or may not want to do. Have you tried your integrated sound in the past? How was that? I have to admit that I am curious in general about the quality of onboard soundcards.

Creative Soundblaster cards in general do seem to have the best Linux support, but I have no particular recommendations.

I too wish I could offer something more helpful. I know for sure the problem is sample rate. I only know the resolution using KDE. Also, that resolution is not perfect. Example, I still have not found how to change the sample rate to 48000 in mplayer and as you guys said there is a problem between windows and linux. Linux changes something in the SB Audigy2 NX card that makes it unusable in Windows. Then if I configure the card in Windows using the Creative software, it screws up the Linux configuration in a totally different way than just sound cracking. Nonetheless, I love the card and it sounds great in Linux. I've settled to use the Creative card in Linux and on board sound in Windows, which also sounds very good. I too have no recommendation on alternate sound cards other than be sure to go to the ALSA web site to be sure whatever you purchase is supported by ALSA.

Hi Guys!

The quality of my onboard sound is okay, for ears that don't know the sound of a real good sound card, there is no difference.
The fact is that i've deactivated my onboard-sound because there were some nasty problems on windows (Sometimes, it confounded the two soundcards, so i had 5.1 sound on my oboard chip and stero sound on my Audigy...)

Regards

Atmchicago, I hope you're still subscribed to this thread or anyone else who has this issue. My sound card is working great and I installed the arts plugin for audio output in mplayer--now all sound rocks in Linux. One Problem left:

When I reboot into Windows XP with the same sound card, the sound is great in XP, but when I go back to Fedora 3, there is this sound like a repeating bad tape of clicking and scratchiness. Hard to describe but different than when the sample rate was not correct.

What I do to remedy is to turn off the sound card, uninstall the card from linux (kudzu), then reboot with the sound card back on, kudzu reconfigures the card and the sound is perfect again. Any ideas on a work around. I haven't seen any posts on this one?

Hope you are doing well and did you get the gaming working?

Thanks, Mark

Since my laptop is running Linux-only, I haven't run across this issue. It appears that when an OS configures the soundcard, it does a couple things that have to be reset each time another OS wants to use it - so it might be that the kernel drivers haven't been written to take it into account - if that's the case (and it's speculation on my part), then it sounds like something you can write to the people who wrote the code - I think you can probably find out who they are at the alsa WIKI or somewhere on ALSA's page. Good luck!

It's a high class problem. I thought if it was something simple I was missing. I will do that and thanks for your response as usual. Best to you.

Hi atmchicago,

I've been through your posts, for whatever reason. Good work of yours.
I have a Terratec Aureon MKII usb sound card, and I encountered the same problem as regards the keyboard.

Just to let you know that the latest kernel stable release (2.6.11.11) solves the problem.

Keep up the good work.

jdif

Cool thanks - I'll give my kernel a recompile when I have the time and see how it works. It so happens that I will be without my audigy for 5 weeks, so it'll take me a while to give it the test.

Has anyone got the optical SPDIF to work on this? I have seen a lot of people with problems. Assuming I get it to work as well as it can in Linux, is it worth buying?

I have never used the optical SPDIF - what is it supposed to be used with?

It is a fiber optic cable that carries the digital signal to an amplifier (an amplifier with SPDIF inputs). The amplifier then decodes it into 2 channels for CD or 5.1 channels for DVD. PC's have a lot of electrical noise, so I wanted to keep the sound in digital form and have the amplifier change it to analog.

In the near future I'm gonna see I if I can use the optical in, but I haven't tried it yet. I'll post my success on here when I try.