I've just upgraded/replaced my PII (333) system (new motherboard etc. ) and installed SuSE 7.2 + Win98. However, whereas SuSE recognises the Soltek motherboard's AC'97 onboard sound and sets up a driver, the playing of .wav .mp3 is *very* distorted - Audio CDs are fine and ALL sound formats play OK via Win32. I will probably replace onboard sound with a "proper" sound card at some stage - Meanwhile, could this be as simple as a driver problem? Anyone have any positive experience with setting up new drivers for AC'97 sound devices?!? Chris P.S For upgrade "Trainspotters" (like me) the new components are: Soltek SL-75DRV2 (VIA Apollo KT266), DURON 900 - (1GHz - with FSB at 111 MHz ;-), Cooler-Master DP5-6I-11A CPU Fan, 256MB DDR, SILURO (Cheapest!) Nvidia GeForce2 MX200 and a US Robotics 56k V.92 external Faxmodem. Ah, this enforced pre-Xmas economy ;-)
I have one of those chipsets in the Compaq DeskPro that I have on my desk at work. I had SO many problems with it that I just said piss on it and spent the $45 on an OEM SBLive 512 which works flawlessly. :) * jhcr@lineone.net (jhcr@lineone.net) [011212 11:43]: ->I've just upgraded/replaced my PII (333) system (new motherboard etc. ) and installed SuSE 7.2 + Win98. However, whereas SuSE recognises the Soltek motherboard's AC'97 onboard sound and sets up a driver, the playing of .wav .mp3 is *very* distorted - Audio CDs are fine and ALL sound formats play OK via Win32. -> ->I will probably replace onboard sound with a "proper" sound card at some stage - Meanwhile, could this be as simple as a driver problem? Anyone have any positive experience with setting up new drivers for AC'97 sound devices?!? -> ->Chris -> ->P.S For upgrade "Trainspotters" (like me) the new components are: -> ->Soltek SL-75DRV2 (VIA Apollo KT266), DURON 900 - (1GHz - with FSB at 111 MHz ;-), ->Cooler-Master DP5-6I-11A CPU Fan, 256MB DDR, SILURO (Cheapest!) Nvidia GeForce2 MX200 and a US Robotics 56k V.92 external Faxmodem. -> ->Ah, this enforced pre-Xmas economy ;-) -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -AE
I've just upgraded/replaced my PII (333) system (new motherboard etc. ) and installed SuSE 7.2 + Win98. However, whereas SuSE recognises the Soltek motherboard's AC'97 onboard sound and sets up a driver, the playing of .wav .mp3 is *very* distorted - Audio CDs are fine and ALL sound formats play OK via Win32.
I will probably replace onboard sound with a "proper" sound card at some stage - Meanwhile, could this be as simple as a driver problem? Anyone have any positive experience with setting up new drivers for AC'97 sound devices?!?
The MB on my machine at work has one of these and I tried to install the new ALSA drivers (0.9-something) for it alongside a 2.4.16 kernel on Monday. Horribly distorted noise. :( I backed the ALSA drivers out to 0.5-something and it works fine. I'm still on SuSE-7.1 - perhaps the latest ALSA drivers are broken and 7.2 ships them?
On Thursday 13 December 2001 09.49, Derek Fountain wrote:
The MB on my machine at work has one of these and I tried to install the new ALSA drivers (0.9-something) for it alongside a 2.4.16 kernel on Monday. Horribly distorted noise. :( I backed the ALSA drivers out to 0.5-something and it works fine.
I'm still on SuSE-7.1 - perhaps the latest ALSA drivers are broken and 7.2 ships them?
Alsa 0.9 is a very different animal from 0.5. It's not just a case of a simple upgrade. Many programs can't use the 0.9 driver without a recompile. Note xine, for example, which has one audio plugin for 0.5, and one for 0.9. I'm on 7.3 and it's still alsa 0.5 here. //Anders
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