[SuSE Linux] 2 minor configuration problems
I just installed Suse 4.4.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and have 2 problems. Soundcard (ESS ES1688, SB compatible) works, but audio CD's are played with inferior sound quality. Second problem: graphics card is a S3Virge 325 with 4M, but cannot get it to work with more than 8bpp at 1024x768. If I force X to start with more than 8bpp colors (with DefaultColorDepth in XF86Config), I get only 800x600. Even so, SuSE is a great distribution. Adrian - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Adrian Coman wrote:
I just installed Suse 4.4.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and have 2 problems. Soundcard (ESS ES1688, SB compatible) works, but audio CD's are played with inferior sound quality. Second problem: graphics card is a S3Virge 325 with 4M, but cannot get it to work with more than 8bpp at 1024x768. If I force X to start with more than 8bpp colors (with DefaultColorDepth in XF86Config), I get only 800x600.
Even so, SuSE is a great distribution.
Adrian
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I can't help on the sound card problem. I have a cheap and uninteresting genuine SB 16 PnP card. It's not the greatest but I can play CDs. I have some cheap no name amplified speakers connected to my SB 16 card and so the sound is not that great. Have you looked at the output that the X server is printing out when you start id? This is very useful in trying to determine what the problem is. Also, make sure in the part of your XF86Config file you having something like this in your screen section. I think that it might be possible to have more than one mode listed but I always run my system in 1024x768 and so this is a portion of my /etc/XF86Config file. Section "Screen" . . . SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection I'm running SuSE 5.2 with XFree86 3.3.2 which may be a different version than what shipped with SuSE 4.4.1. I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 card which uses the S3 ViRGE chipset and it runs with a color depth of 16bpp with the XFree86 SVGA server. Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
I can't help on the sound card problem. I have a cheap ... What I meant was that the same CD's sound better under NT. In Linux there is a background noise, but not all the time.
Color depth problem is solved now. Somehow I had for 1024x768, 85 Mhz dot clock (values found using xvidtune) and for my hardware maximum allowed was 80 MHz. Changed that in XF86Config, now everything works allright. Adrian - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, afcoman@sfu.ca produced:
What I meant was that the same CD's sound better under NT. In Linux there is a background noise, but not all the time.
Linux has a lot of daemons running most of the time, and some do acces the HD. Both -- especially HD-activity --do tend to create disturbances in the power supply which are hard to filter on a sound card. Sometimes it helps to move the sound card far from the possible sources of disturbance and other cards, sometimes shielding it better helps (like take 2 cardbord pieces with aluminium foil in the middle, insulate it well (no shortig things please) and ground it to the chassis). Since NT is basically still a single user, 1.5 task desktop thingie, not much is going on and thus will not create disturbances == noise as often (if at all). Well, that's my guess. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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