On Thursday July 5 2007 8:14:23 am Michael Derek Barnett wrote:
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. <snip> 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
Install/run both kmix and alsamixergui. kmix will be your long term system tray applet for volume control. So start with kmix and then alsamixergui. When you use the es1370 do you disable the via8233 in the BIOS? Start with kmix and adjust each and every possible setting while listening to anything, starting at each option's current level and raising/lowering back to its original point. Also try enabling/disabling the 'mute' switch for each and every possible input/output. I think you may find one of these produces more noise than any other and that'll be the one that you adjust to stop the bacon. If this doesn't work and this is the same motherboard (9 years old?) you may have too much electrical noise in the system. If you are serious about fixing this, then remove all non-essential boards from the PCI or ISA slots and try again. Try the es1370 in different slots. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org