Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Michael Schuster wrote: >> I don't quite know how to describe it better ... whenever I play music >> on my lenovo T60p (opensolaris 2008.11 and oss v4.0-1015), the music >> itself is quite fine, but it sounds as if a helicopter were passing by >> somewhere in the middle distance - it's not very loud, but audible. In >> fact, I think the volume of this disturbance seems to be directly >> related to the volume of what I'm listening to, because when the music >> gets quieter, so does the noise. >> >> has anybody come across this before, and what did you do to fix it >> (other than get a Mac)? >> > > A couple of thoughts. > > 1) Have you tried using stock Sun Solaris audio? (Does this device > *require* you to use 4Front OSS)? Hopefully the latest Sun drivers > should work on this system.
have not, sure can do - how? just uninstall oss (and reboot)? (I did notice that the device driver utility shows "supported" for the audio device, but I'm not very knowledgable in that area to be able to say whether that's sufficient). > 3) It wouldn't surprise me if there is distortion introduced by the > conversion layers in sadasupport & vmix. Does the distortion happen > when you use osstest? (osstest bypasses both vmix and sadasupport.) yes, same distortion with osstest. thx. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
