Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. No, it's not. The reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:28 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:02 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the above mentioned sound card installed in my dual 252 Opteron. I have enabled ALSA and OSS emulation in the kernel and everything is compiled in, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:28 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: SB Audigy cards aren't the best sounding cards out there. They are OK, but if you mainly want music, look elsewhere. If you're mainly interested in games they work fine. BTW: Which AMD64-compliant card do you recommend for music?

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:28 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: Repeating clicks is usually an indication of empty audio buffers. It means your system can't keep the sound card supplied with data. You might be able to get some help by making your kernel preemptible - Symbol: PREEMPT [=y]

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:00:34 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that. No success. Tried disabling ACPI too, same result (noise and clicks). Given you have am amd64 based machine, I'm pretty surprised at the noise. What else is on the PCI bus? As to cards, it doesn't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-23 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. No, it's not. The reason I can say that is I have a 2P Opteron with the same chipset as

[gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-22 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I have the above mentioned sound card installed in my dual 252 Opteron. I have enabled ALSA and OSS emulation in the kernel and everything is compiled in, no alsa modules. The card is correctly detected on boot-up and apparently activated. Everything seems to be configured correctly

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:02 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the above mentioned sound card installed in my dual 252 Opteron. I have enabled ALSA and OSS emulation in the kernel and everything is compiled in, no alsa modules. The card is correctly detected on boot-up and