On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:52, Patrick B�rjesson wrote: > I've had this problem some time now and recently I saved up some space > on my harddrive and installed windoze on another partition just to see > if the sound-quality was as bad in windoze as in Linux... Surprisingly > it wasn't!! As I thought this was a hardware problem at first I was > ready to buy a new soundcard, but given this information I'm now > wondering if there's anything one can do to better the sound-quality > without buying a new soundcard? I've installed the emu10k1-drivers that > are in portage(v. 0.20a-r5) but still not half as good quality as in > windoze with Soundblaster's drivers.
How many speakers have you? I have Sounblaster Live! Player and analog 5.1 speakers, i.e. 5 small + 1 subwoofer. Normally sound comes only from the front and rear speakers (small ones) so the sound is not as good as in Windows where it is also routed to the center box and subwoofer. When I watch DVDs or anything with ac3 sound in mplayer the sound is much louder (the same settings in the mixer) and has much better quality. I have to issue the "-channels 6" switch. Perhaps some tweaking in /etc/emu10k1.conf will help... Post your configuration here. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
