Re: (semi-solved): Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
that could be cause by your sound server settings, try increasing the
latency, also, have you installed all the ALSA utilities and alsa m odules
for sound programs?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleg" <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>
To: "Jeremy Petzold" <jpetzold@earthlink.net>; "Maximilian Pascher"
<mpascher@linuxforall.de>; <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: (semi-solved): Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
> On Monday 25 November 2002 10:47 pm, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> > casue I screwed up....it is ACPI not APCI.
> >
> > get the vanilla kernel. get the ACPI patch, and from the top level
kernel
> > source directory, if the patch file is zipped do a:
> >
> > zcat <patch location and name> | patch -p0
> >
> > if it is not zipped do a:
> >
> > cat <patch location and name> |patch -p0
>
> Yes, thanks. I finally got it to work using vanilla 2..4.19, acpi patch
and
> the developement release alsa drivers from their web site.
>
> I think my problem all along was that I didn't modprobe snd-pcm-oss (sound
> and snd-pcm are not enough)
>
> Now it works, but the sound isn't as loud as under Windows XP (even at
> maximum "vol" and "pcm" settings using aumix), and it gets distorted when
> "vol" setting is higher than ~ 50% [1]
>
> I will be investigating this issue in next few days and perhaps pester
this
> list some more. For now, I'd like to thank everyone who replied for their
> help!
>
> Oleg
>
> [1] I don't really understand why there are two independent volume
controls
> in aumix: "vol" is referred to as the main volume control, and "pcm" is
> connected to the xmms volume control.
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