Sorry, posted this to alsa-user, but recieved no reply, so I'm going to try on here.
I have compiled kernel 2.5.5 and enabled ALSA support for my SBLive! PCI card. All the modules compiled except rtctimer, which I then disabled and recompiled without a problem. I modprobed the snd-emu10k1 driver - at this point a noticable hiss started in my speakers. but I wasn't sure if it was just because I had them up loud, so I continued. I ran alsamixer, put up all the volumes (just to be sure) and then used alsaplayer to play an Ogg Vorbis file. This was when I realised the hiss was not just background noise - under the music the hiss was very noticable. Using OSS from 2.4.x on the same hardware there is no such hiss (or at least not noticable) Has anyone seen this problem before and/or knows how to fix it? Some potentially useful outputs, hope they help: /proc/asound/cards: 0 [card0 ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Live! at 0xdf80, irq 11 /proc/asound/devices: 0: [0- 0]: ctl 4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent 8: [0- 0]: raw midi 19: [0- 3]: digital audio playback 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 33: : timer /proc/asound/oss-devices: 2: [0- 2]: raw midi /proc/asound/timers: G0: system timer : 10000.0us (10000000 ticks) P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE P0-0-4: PCM playback 0-0-4 : SLAVE P0-0-6: PCM playback 0-0-6 : SLAVE P0-0-8: PCM playback 0-0-8 : SLAVE P0-0-10: PCM playback 0-0-10 : SLAVE P0-0-12: PCM playback 0-0-12 : SLAVE P0-0-14: PCM playback 0-0-14 : SLAVE P0-0-16: PCM playback 0-0-16 : SLAVE P0-0-18: PCM playback 0-0-18 : SLAVE P0-0-20: PCM playback 0-0-20 : SLAVE P0-0-22: PCM playback 0-0-22 : SLAVE P0-0-24: PCM playback 0-0-24 : SLAVE P0-0-26: PCM playback 0-0-26 : SLAVE P0-0-28: PCM playback 0-0-28 : SLAVE P0-0-30: PCM playback 0-0-30 : SLAVE P0-0-32: PCM playback 0-0-32 : SLAVE P0-0-34: PCM playback 0-0-34 : SLAVE P0-0-36: PCM playback 0-0-36 : SLAVE P0-0-38: PCM playback 0-0-38 : SLAVE P0-0-40: PCM playback 0-0-40 : SLAVE P0-0-42: PCM playback 0-0-42 : SLAVE P0-0-44: PCM playback 0-0-44 : SLAVE P0-0-46: PCM playback 0-0-46 : SLAVE P0-0-48: PCM playback 0-0-48 : SLAVE P0-0-4: PCM playback 0-0-4 : SLAVE P0-0-6: PCM playback 0-0-6 : SLAVE P0-0-8: PCM playback 0-0-8 : SLAVE P0-0-10: PCM playback 0-0-10 : SLAVE P0-0-12: PCM playback 0-0-12 : SLAVE P0-0-14: PCM playback 0-0-14 : SLAVE P0-0-16: PCM playback 0-0-16 : SLAVE P0-0-18: PCM playback 0-0-18 : SLAVE P0-0-20: PCM playback 0-0-20 : SLAVE P0-0-22: PCM playback 0-0-22 : SLAVE P0-0-24: PCM playback 0-0-24 : SLAVE P0-0-26: PCM playback 0-0-26 : SLAVE P0-0-28: PCM playback 0-0-28 : SLAVE P0-0-30: PCM playback 0-0-30 : SLAVE P0-0-32: PCM playback 0-0-32 : SLAVE P0-0-34: PCM playback 0-0-34 : SLAVE P0-0-36: PCM playback 0-0-36 : SLAVE P0-0-38: PCM playback 0-0-38 : SLAVE P0-0-40: PCM playback 0-0-40 : SLAVE P0-0-42: PCM playback 0-0-42 : SLAVE P0-0-44: PCM playback 0-0-44 : SLAVE P0-0-46: PCM playback 0-0-46 : SLAVE P0-0-48: PCM playback 0-0-48 : SLAVE P0-0-48: PCM playback 0-0-48 : SLAVE P0-0-50: PCM playback 0-0-50 : SLAVE P0-0-52: PCM playback 0-0-52 : SLAVE P0-0-54: PCM playback 0-0-54 : SLAVE P0-0-56: PCM playback 0-0-56 : SLAVE P0-0-58: PCM playback 0-0-58 : SLAVE P0-0-60: PCM playback 0-0-60 : SLAVE P0-0-62: PCM playback 0-0-62 : SLAVE P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE P0-2-1: PCM capture 0-2-1 : SLAVE P0-3-0: PCM playback 0-3-0 : SLAVE P0-3-2: PCM playback 0-3-2 : SLAVE P0-3-4: PCM playback 0-3-4 : SLAVE P0-3-6: PCM playback 0-3-6 : SLAVE P0-3-8: PCM playback 0-3-8 : SLAVE P0-3-10: PCM playback 0-3-10 : SLAVE P0-3-12: PCM playback 0-3-12 : SLAVE P0-3-14: PCM playback 0-3-14 : SLAVE /proc/asound/pcm: 00-00: emu10k1 : EMU10K1 : playback 32 : capture 1 00-01: emu10k1 mic : EMU10K1 MIC : capture 1 00-02: emu10k1 efx : EMU10K1 EFX : capture 1 00-03: emu10k1 : EMU10K1 FX8010 : playback 8 Cheers, Alex -- ALEX|X3JA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 1523424 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel