by now, i have two of those SiS chipset pieces of crap under my control... but what do you do if someone offers a $300 computer with 1.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, 16x CD-RW, DVD, and a 60Gb Hdd??? anyway, both are equipped with the SiS 630 chipset, and both "feature" the SiS 7018 audio controller (it's just not a soundcard...): 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) according to various sources, the kernel config help, and alsa, the responsible driver is the trident driver, available as a kernel option/module, and with alsa. now i tried all, the kernel's trident.o, compiling into the kernel, and alsa, but with all permutations and combinations, i get the crappiest output that i've ever heard. it's all thoroughly distorted so you can almost not make out what you are listening to. with one of the two systems, i did manage to get sound working every now and then, magically switching at boot-time to either of distorted or not. with the other system, i just haven't suceeded at all yet. in any case, i want this crap to stop, i want to be able to modprobe or /etc/init.d/alsa start and have working sound. has anyone else experienced these problems too? how can i fix this? because it did work before, and because there are two systems involved, purchased separately, i argue that this must be not (only) hardware, but software as well. any help appreciated. (don't go with SiS chipsets...) -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck redistribution of this email via the micros~1 network is prohibited.
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