Re: [Alsa-user] Spikes in sound when playing 640kbps ac3

2008-04-23 Thread William R. Zwicky
Dominique Dumont wrote: I have a problem when playing dolby digital streams encoded at 640kbps. This problem occurs with mplayer or 'ac3dec -C'. When playing 640 kbps stream, I hear spikes (or short scratchy sounds) 4 or 5 times per seconds on all channels. These spikes do not occur on silent

Re: [Alsa-user] problem updating to alsa 1.0.16

2008-03-19 Thread William R. Zwicky
Subway Blues wrote: and for some reason (do you know why?) that folder has a higher priority. I wonder if there's a way to have both the packages installed without conflicts or to make the kernel load the module I compiled. Brute force method is to enter: locate hda-intel then rm the

[Alsa-user] No surround sound under Doom 3

2008-03-18 Thread William R. Zwicky
I can't get surround sound with Doom 3 and Quake 4 under Linux. Stereo output works fine, aplay works fine, and speaker-test works in every mode, stereo and surround. But when I try to enable surround sound in Doom 3, I get this: dlopen(libasound.so.2) asoundlib version: 1.0.14a opened Alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA 82xx chip snd_hda_intel no sound and codec is Generic 1106 ID1708?

2008-03-18 Thread William R. Zwicky
Chris Vighagen wrote: Hi! I'm trying to make heads and tails of a small sound problem. I get sound very very very low from the headphones jack, I had to run it through an external amp on max to get a whisper out of the headphones jack. The onboard speakers make no sound at all. Alsaconfig