http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-06 20:00 ------- This happens for me with my Game Theater XP on 9.1 RC2 too. I managed to find a temporary workaround which is to use draksound to choose the OSS cs46xx driver instead of the auto-detected ALSA snd-cs46xx driver. On making that change, the sound seems OK. However, you get a warning that the cs46xx driver is black-listed and snd-cs46xx is restored on reboot. Additional info that might help someone fix this, if I use draksound to choose the snd-cs46xx driver I get this error message (I have tried to make sure I closed all applications that may be using the sound card): [begin quote] cs46xx: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod snd-cs46xx failed insmod'ing module snd-cs46xx failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 61. [end quote] I find it strange that it says "no such device" when it seemed like the OSS driver could see the device without any problem. Output from lspci shows this: [begin quote] 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:04.4 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] (rev a3) [end-quote] And finally, here is the last bit of output from dmesg: [begin-quote] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 14:27:51 Feb 28 2003 cs46xx: Card found at 0xed000000 and 0xec800000, IRQ 10 cs46xx: Hercules Game Theatre XP (1681:0050) at 0xed000000/0xec800000, IRQ 10 ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: CRY45 (Cirrus Logic CS4294) Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy [end-quote] ...and then it sounds terrible again. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.