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Black Sun and said: snip "Serious Linux courses"? All the crap you need is on your system already; it's just a matter of having enough time to read all...
Michael Heiming
# lsmod grep snd sndintel8x0 33249 1 sndac97codec 67489 1 sndintel8x0 sndpcmoss 47989 0 sndmixeross 17089 1 sndpcmoss sndpcm 93001 4 sndintel8x0,sndac97codec,sndpcmoss sndtimer 29125 1 sndpcm snd 52645 7 sndintel8x0,sndac97codec,sndpcmoss,sndmixeross,sndpcm,sndtimer soundcore 10017 1 snd sndpagealloc 9541 2 sndintel8x0,sndpcm
Yeah, the sound card is just in integrated Intel chipset on the mobo. This is my PC at work, not my gaming system at home. =)
# catproc-asound-oss-sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.6 emulation code) Kernel: Linux WEBDEV01 2.6.10-1.760FC3 #1 Wed Feb 2 00:14:23 EST 2005 i686 Config options: 0
Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: Intel ICH5 with AD1980 at 0xfeb7fa00, irq 3
Audio devices: 0: Intel ICH5 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers: 7: system timer
Mixers: 0: Analog Devices AD1980
This is a lot of information! I had no idea any of this was available, like this. (I really need to take some serious Linux courses or something.)
Refering to another's post, what is "overdriving PCM"?
Black Sun and said: Sorry about the delay--dangit, too many other things going on. with a bunch of new things to get...
And to another's, DMA is on: # hdparm -vdev-hda2
dev-hda2: multcount = 16 (on) IOsupport = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) usingdma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 65535-16-63, sectors = 21106068480, start = 198884700
I looked into the XMMS prefs, and I see that my output plugin is: aRts (libarts.so) So, I switched it to: ALSA (linalsa.so) If I leave it on default device, I still get mbuttive distortion. If I change it to: Intel ICH5 : ICH5(hw:0,0) I get a device error. If I change it to: Intel ICH5 : ICH5 - IEC958 (hw:0,4) no error and it appears to play, as the time and progress slider bar moves, but no sound.
However, if I change the plugin to: OSS (libOSS.so) bad distortion as well.
Perhaps if I can get suggestions on what is generally the best output plugin to use, I can keep playing around with other stuff. There's just so much to tweak with, and so much that's probably a red herring and time waster. So all advice is appreciated!
Thanks for all the replies! Liam