Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so
> I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module.
>
> Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP.
>
> In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to
> /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but
> there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I had this
> behavior both with emu10k1 v0.7 included with the 2.2.20 source, and
> emu10k1 v0.18 that I just downloaded from SourceForge. I tried playing
> with various mixer settings, but that didn't help. The only way I could
> get rid of the hissing was by turning the volume all the way down.
did you mute all the other inputs on the mixer?
> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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