kernel vs. alsa?

[Gregory Nowak]

Cheryl, do you have amplified speakers? The kernel drivers for the sblive card aren't the best, but they did a good job for me in terms of sound loudness and quality for about a year and a half.
Greg


On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:31:45PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> As much as i'm hating trying to get all these mixer setting straight, I didn't
> at all like the kernel drivers for my sblive. they made my sblive sound like a
> cheap (cheap, not inexpensive) card, maybe because I wasn't using a mixer that
> could handle them. on the other hand, I very much liked the oss package I
> bought; I'm only trying to do alsa because I want to be on the speakfreely
> reflector.
> as for your trplayer program, there is probably a setting eluding you or
> something; even with the problems i am having with my mixer settings for
> recording, trplayer works fine with my .wav files.
> However, I will say that for my soundblaster the kernel support was just fine; I
> couldn't have been happier, so it depends on your card whether you would be
> happywith the kernel support.
> 
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