On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:20, Ken Barber wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 8:01 am, Philip A. Chapman wrote: > > I have a laptop which has a VIA Tech sound chip. The Chip is identified > > as "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC Audio Controller" in /etc/sysconfig/hwconfig. > > The snd-via82xx module is being used for this chip. > > > > When I play .ogg files through winamp or ogg123, I get sound that is low > > volume and has a lot of static. > > I don't know whether or not this is the same issue I see with my audio card. > I had loud hissing, starting with FC2. > > In the audio mixer, there are two inputs called IEC958 or something like that. > Turning off the second one stopped the hissing. > > If you cannot control the volume with the Gnome mixer, try using KDE and see > if KMix works any better. You may (or may not) be willing to switch to KDE, > but it's worth trying as a troubleshooting step. > > Hope this helps, > > Ken this also worked for me in FC2, but not with FC3 - anyone having this problem? ideas? sound is essential... :-( -- Take control of your informational flow! Join a community server: http://wiki.aktivix.org
