also sprach Ray <maillists@sonictech.net> [2001.12.30.0002 +0100]:
> > 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???
>
> FWIW the recent (and even not so recent) SiS chipsets are actually pretty
> good. What exactly makes you think this is some sort of chipset defect?
i don't think it's a chipset defect, i just think that it's about the
cheapest piece of audio controller that SiS could find. SiS isn't really
quality...
i do think that this is something peculiar though, since there are two
independently purchased but equivalent systems suffering from the same
disease...
> > 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.
>
> It's working fine here so don't give up. Are you using a sound daemon such
> as esound etc...? What sort of sound samples are you using? What are you
> using to play them? The sound modules that are loaded on my system are
> trident.o, soundcore, and ac97_codec. I only had to load trident.o
> explicitly (in /etc/modules) and the rest were loaded automagically. I'm
> using the 2.2.19 kernel. Do you have any other devices installed in the
> system that could be causing a conflict?
i am not giving up. i can't, it's got no ISA slots. otherwise, i would
have used the SB16 i still have (which, mind me, is still a very good
piece of hardware from times back when not everyone tried to save money
at the expense of quality...), and it was just very decently priced...
i do have those modules loaded, among others, but i get no conflicts or
errors when loading trident.o. it even says that it's initialized fine,
and the audio isn't interrupted or anything (suggesting an IRQ
conflict), it's just bloody distorted...
any other clues?
thanks for answering though!
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