Re: Sound is clipping - alsamixer isn't working
Installing ALSA (alsa-base and alsa-utils) broke the sound on Debian
too. I did it because MPD sounded like the sound was played from within
a tin can, or something. XMMS is clipping on OSS and ALSA. Before
installing ALSA, only OSS was working, but it wasn't clipping.
On 2005-07-21, Anders Breindahl <skrewz@skrewz.dk> wrote:
> The related stuff of the output from `dmesg`.
I can't find anything obvious and I don't know what to look for.
> Actually, I'd like to see the output of `lsmod`, too.
$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 36460 2
snd_ac97_codec 69988 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 55080 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25732 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 25124 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 57156 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10336 3 snd
>> You're right, but I didn't turn anything up in Linux, and I can't turn
>> it down, using for example alsamixer - it doesn't work.
>
> Oh, o.k. I don't know how the Ubuntu team looks at default volumes. However, I
> am not an expert in this field, so I can't put my finger on the problem
> you're having.
Alsamixer isn't working in Debian right now either.
> I have some tests for debugging, you could try, though.
I'd like to try.
> Does the card work in any other distributions?
I guess not, not after I found out it didn't work in Debian either. I've
tried Knoppix too, which was also clipping the sound.
> If you enabled the OSS mixer API in the kernel -- could an
> OSS-mixer-application control the hardware, then?
I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about.
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