Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Braun Brelin wrote:

> Hm...Given that the sound card is integrated on the motherboard, will
> there be any bus conflicts if I install an Audigy card?
>
> Braun Brelin
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The Audigy work with PCI and should work provided you are have 
everything running and have not removed any prior modules for Soundcard 
support. If you plug it in, it will see it but you may do better with a 
clean install.

Adam SuSE 93 on laptop and Desktop

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> > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 9:37 am, Braun Brelin wrote:
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> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm running with an AMD-64 system and a VIA integrated sound card.  I've
> > > configured the card with alsaconf and it does work, but I'm finding the
> > > sound very disappointing.  MP3's that played with good sound quality on
> > > my
> > > old system now sound distorted and "scratchy", as if I'm playing it too
> > > loud on an inferior quality speaker system.  This works even if I'm
> > > using
> > > the same headphones I used on my old RH 9 system.
> > >      
> > The VIA sound is probably AC97, which is a BAD chipset, IMHO. I'd buy a
> > SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS and be a VERY happy camper for a LONG time! Yes,
> > it's
> > a little pricy, BUT if you have a good sound system, you can't beat this
> > puppy!
> >
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> >
> > > Is there anything I can do to tweak the quality of the sound playback?
> > > I'm using SuSE Professional Linux 9.3 (the 32 bit version, even though I
> > > have a 64 bit CPU).
> > >      
> > Fred
> >
> > --
> > Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in
> > our software, Never! We do have undocumented added
> > features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost
> > to you, at this time.
> >
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