On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:07 +0000, c wrote: > On Sat May 20, 2006 at 09:27:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > often sounding as if the playback is of a file that over-drove the d/a in > > playback, or the a/d in the recording, eg clipped. > ... > > the ATI-IXP audio stuffs loaded > > the ATIIXP in my MSI exhibits this same issue. essentially, if the 'PCM' > level is set to 100%, things are horribly overdriven. the solution is to set > the Master to 100%, and adjust volume with PCM, instead of vice versa. i > guess whether this is a hardware bug or a driver bug depends on if PCM is the > last point of software contact with the stream and master trims the levels > after that, or if PCM just does some multiplication on the bits before > passing them to the Master.. >
Distortion if all volumes are set to 100% is not necessarily a bug. It's just the way some hardware works. Lee
