ALSA - Warped Sound
 

Hello Everyone,

Although I am very new to the forum (first post and all), I wouldn't say I am new to Linux, only that I haven't dived far enough into it to solve as many issues as I would like. Anyway, to the point; I have been having issues with my sound using SUSE 9.2, and an audigy LS. The version of ALSA I have installed does support the creative audigy LS, I know this because I have checked, but also because at times the card works perfectly. Let’s run through what I know:

If I boot the system normally, sound will play but it is very distorted (that is all sound). At this point, if I open a shell and run the alsaconf, reconfigure my card and play the sample, the sample plays perfectly, but other sound on the system still remains distorted.

If I boot the system into Fail Safe mode, the sound will play perfectly. I appear to have less channels in the mixers but it says to be using the same chipset as before (the difference being, in kmix on a normal boot it will state audigy-ls in a fail safe boot it will name the ls's chipset.)

I have tried disabling ARTSD, I have also tried playing around with it, changing skipping options and buffer sizes. I have tried KDE, GNOME, I have even placed the card in a different PCI slot with no luck.

I'm sure you will require more information about my system in order to help, but as I am not at home at this time I will leave that for a later post (in the assumption it is needed).

Thank you for your time
SpiritWalker

Wow these forums move fast. I done a re-install tonight. Suse 9.2 again, although this time I went for a slightly cut down version and chose a GNOME only system in a hope that it was the KDE sound system causing the issues, the sound almost seems to be worse now, same effect though. When I run alsa conf in a shell it says it can not find my card, Im wondering if for some reason it is no longer a kernel mod :|?

Either way the sound is acting in the same way, any pointers would be wonderful..

FYI, I also seem to be getting errors stating that another application is using the audio device.. Although from what I can tell nothing is using it :P! Could this be a kernel mod issue?

modprobe snd - doesnt show any errors :|