On Sun, 22 May 2005 11:39:49 -0700, you wrote:
Nobody's responded to this so I thought I'd repost.
I am definitely not getting the performance I expect from my sound card.
How do I know? Because my machine is dual boot with XP and in XP the sound is loud and clear.
The sound in Linux, even with my tweak below is low and hissy ( like it's not putting out enough volume, so the background noise is emphasized ).
This is really frustrating because this is the THIRD sound card I'm using.
1) The built in VIA chipset never worked with Suse.
2) I bought a SB Pro 24-bit live and they never wrote the full drivers because SB did not release the specs.
3) Now I bought a card that based on the Suse hardware database that was rated as being FULLY supported and there are still problems.
1) Please don't top post - I doubt the quote attribution is correct, but I can't figure out who said what. 2) I had something odd happen on one of my systems here with an AC'97 sound on the MB (ASUS, but don't bother ranting at me - I like the P4B800s) that might give you a lead - I was hacking around with this machine as a dual boot, and at one point, I had a similar problem as you describe. Investigation showed that somehow the speaker and line in plugs had gotten reversed _IN SOFTWARE_. By that I mean that when running windows, the green plug was the speaker connection, and when booted to linux, it was the red plug... When connected wrong, if you crank the volume all the way up, you can get audio similar to your description out of the line in plug - just before you blow up the op amp chip... I don't know if that's your problem, but it's something to look into. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.