Thus spake martin f krafft: > also sprach Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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! I missed the original post I guess, so I don't have all the background, but is your mixer level turned up too high? I get a lot of distortion on my sound card if it is. HTH, Steve -- core error - bus dumped
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