Hi everyone,

I'm using a soundblaster pci64 sound card with a mandrake 10.1. The sound is not very good, with clicks. I read that for this card, the correct driver is snd-audiopci . I did not find this driver on the mandrake 10.1 (snd-es1370 is loaded), so, where can I find it ? (snd-audiopci) if possible in a rpm compatible with the mandrake 10.1 or something easy to install.

Thanks for any information,
Christophe

Hi Christophe_35, welcome to lq. You may want to upgrade your alsa packages and use one of the following drivers.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=ens1371

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=ens1370

good luck.

Thanks Peacedog. I tried both drivers (ens1370 and ens1371), they are still some clicks on the sound with these drivers. I read that the soundblaster works with the snd-audiopci driver. Is this driver still "alive" ?

Christophe

Let's see what /sbin/lsmod says. My guess is the mixer settings just need some tweaking. If you check back at the links from my first post you may find some tweaks at the bottom of both pages.
good luck.

Here is the output of /sbin/lsmod:

Module Size Used by
nfsd 189408 8
exportfs 4736 1 nfsd
lockd 58344 2 nfsd
sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd
md5 3584 1
ipv6 230916 10
rfcomm 32348 0
l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap
snd-seq-midi 6624 0
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 6080 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 47440 5 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 49480 0
snd-mixer-oss 17376 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-ens1371 18980 0
snd-rawmidi 19300 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-ens1371
snd-seq-device 6344 4 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-ens1371
snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-page-alloc 7400 1 snd-pcm
snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-ens1371
gameport 3328 1 snd-ens1371
snd 45988 10 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,s nd-ens1371,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-ac97-codec
soundcore 7008 1 snd
af_packet 16072 2
floppy 55088 0
via-rhine 17572 0
mii 4224 1 via-rhine
ide-cd 37280 0
cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd
loop 12520 0
nls_iso8859-15 4224 1
nls_cp850 4480 1
vfat 11168 1
fat 39776 1 vfat
via-agp 7360 1
agpgart 27752 1 via-agp
usblp 10592 1
uhci-hcd 28752 0
usbcore 103172 5 usblp,uhci-hcd


Christophe

Looks like everything is loaded alright. Have you tried alsamixer?
good luck.