Ugh...Sound issues (way OT)

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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I had this problem at one point. Can you tell me what program you were using 
for sound? Were you using alsa for the SB Live as well? What series is your 
SB Live card?
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From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:59 PM
Subject: Ugh...Sound issues (way OT)


> Hi y'all,
>
> Ugh.
>
> I'm having issues.
>
> Last week, the secondary IDE controller on my MB decided to die, so I
> replaced the board and got an upgrade to an Athlon  XP2400. That's the
> good news. The bad news is that now I have sound issues. Same
> soundcard (SBLive--even tried two different ones), but audio is
> distorted and metallic and just, umm, bad. Here are the particulars:
>
> ECS K7S5A Pro motherboard (SiS735 chipset)
> AMD Athlon XP2400
> 128MB SDRAM
> nVidia video card (not very relevant)
>
> The MB has built-in sound, which I'll be getting to in a minute. As I
> mentioned, the soundcard in question right now is a SBLive. Here's
> what I've done so far, all of which was pretty useless:
>
> 1. New kernel, rebuilt modules, reinstalled them and a new kernel.
>
> 2. Tried the SBLive in two or three different slots.
>
> 3. Disabled the onboard sound chip and the reserved PCI video IRQ.
>
> 4. Smacked my head against the wall.
>
> Then I tried to get the onboard sound working and ignore the
> SBLive. That was even worse. Apparently, the SIS1712 sound chip is
> supported by the Intel 810/820/etc. driver in ALSA, so I built one of
> those, re-enabled the sound chip, and loaded the module. I got broken
> sound in between an awful high-pitched I-dunno-what. This was worse
> than the SBLive, so I stuck the SBLive back in, but that's still
> pretty awful.
>
> I gotta think there's something not right with hardware, but I'll be
> damned if I know what. Anyone got a clue?
> -- 
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
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