-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, After 9 years, I'm finally sick of my linux box sounding like bacon frying, so I've spent most of the last week reading and fiddling with settings and now I'm stuck. I'm using 10.2 and the alsa drivers (tried oss, alsa quality was better) for both of the cards I've tried so far, an ensoniq es1370 and the onboard via 8233. The 8233 has more noise in mp3 playback than the es1370. However, dvd audio from the 8233 isn't bad at all, while on the 1370 it is only marginally better than mp3. I have okay sound in kaffeine with dvd playback, but system sounds, ogg vorbis, and mp3's have alot of static behind them. If it weren't for the dvd's being acceptable, I'd just give it up as a lost cause. I'm not looking for perfection, I'd just like to be able to listen to podcasts and actually understand what is being said. At this point, here's what I've done. I've switched from the default oss drivers to the alsa drivers. I've turned off artsd. kaffeine and amarok are both using the xine engine. I tried helix banshee with no success. I've got PCM turned down in the alsa mixer. Add to this list a half dozen other things I've tried and promptly forgotten. (As a side note, for those of you having trouble with flash not having any sound in mozilla, at some point in this process, the switch to alsa, and turning off artsd i think, sound magically appeared on youtube. Unfortunately, I wasn't primarily concerned about this at the time, so there might be some other bit of finger twiddling that also has to be done, but it's possible.) If anyone has any advice about what else I can try, I'd love to hear it. Again, I'm not looking for crystal clear audio (not that I'd turn that down) so much as looking for 'listenable' audio. I accept that I'll probably have to bite the bullet and install a different sound card, but I'll worry about that later if that's the case. Thanks, Derek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGjO6vg39m4F98CH4RAtIyAJ9a6qc2WDKojhZ1kAWvdhmq0aBmnwCfUJnP g16993RGzFZxEZ1yd5HxX7s= =m8tB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org