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?