On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:32:40 -0400
Ed Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I installed Mandrake 9 last week, and I have almost nothing to complain
> about. However, I have managed to frell something up already -- or found
> a bug, take your pick.
>
> I decided to get my rear speakers to work, so I went looking at the
> mixer settings, the aRts soundserver, the sound card in HardDrake, etc.
> I did manage to find the right mixer settings, but after that I decided
> to see what sound I'd get with a different driver. So, I changed the
> sound driver using the config tool in harddrake. It's now set to
> "snd-emu10k1 (EMU10K1)", and it says above that this is the OSS driver.
It (snd-emu10k1) is the ALSA driver :) Note:
snd-emu10k1 == ALSA , and
emu10k1 == OSS.
'less /etc/modules.conf | grep sound-slot' should tell you what driver
you are running.
> Of course, after I changed the driver, I noticed the sound quality I was
> getting out of XMMS was noticeably worse than before, so I went to
> change it back (presumably to ALSA, though I can't remember the exact
> string it was set at), and I was unable to do so. There is now only 1
> option to set the driver to in HardDrake, and it's the one I'm currently
> using.
What happens if you select that option? Maybe there is a problem with
the GUI. Btw, AFAIK ML9.0 uses the ALSA driver by default for your card.
> What's odd is that the "Information" box for the sound card lists
> "audigy:emu10k1" under "Alternative drivers", but, as I said, there's no
> such listing in the config tool.
>
> Any help with regard to HardDrake and Mandrake's implementation of OSS
> and ALSA would be appreciated. I went over to www.alsa-project.org to
> find out how set it up manually, but I'm afraid what documentation they
> had was pretty complicated -- I imagine I could get it working with some
> effort, but I'm hoping I can get Mandrake to set it up for me.
>
> I'm using a vanilla Creative Sound Blaster Live in an Alienware system.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ed Halter
HTH,
-Frans
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