Hi there! I've got several problems with my on-(ASRock K7VT2-)board sound controller. It's a VIA8235. It's just a stereo output, a stereo input and a microphone in. The motherboard has also a MIDI-Connector. I have a mpu401 and mpu401-uart module loaded for this. I'm using Debian Etch (testing) with the ALSA-Version 1.0.9rc2.
Here's what I found out: 1) Doom3 sounds like a very digital effect is switched between the application and the output, a bit like an audio cd hangs. Or like an old C64-car-game (with a quite good 16bit-sound). The sound of Planetpenguin-Racer does work, however. 2) ESD doesn't work on gnome, although the sound server is activated in the audio preferences. No sound app can play audio files on the esd-output, but alsa-output works. Funny: "esdplay" doesn't seem to have a problem and works. 3) Every mixer-app shows "3D Control Center" and "3D Control Depth" twice. 4) /proc/asound/devices: 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 0: [0- 0]: ctl 1: : sequencer 40: [1- 0]: raw midi 32: [1- 0]: ctl 33: : timer /proc/asound/pcm: 00-00: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 4 : capture 1 00-01: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 1 : capture 1 /proc/asound/timers: G0: system timer : 1000.000us (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 P0-1-0: PCM playback 0-1-0 : SLAVE P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE I haven't got that much experience with alsa configurations, but to me it looks like there are 1 1/2 soundcards activated and configured. Maybe an old config is partly active - I have thrown out a Terratec Soundsystem DMX recently. (I thought, it worked quite good after that. I'm sure, ESD did!) What I have done: 1) Reinstalled the alsa-base and alsa-utils packages. 2) removed the mpu401 module. So: I guess, there's a bug in the debian configuration and I would like to report it. But first, I have to find out (with a little help from my alsa-mailinglist) what's going on. Thanks for your help! Mitsch ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
