On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:54, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dell E1705 with an Intel HDA Controller that I'm trying to > get working correctly with FC4 (the race is on to see if I can work > all the little kinks out before updating to FC5 :). > > Running system-config-soundcard, the test sound is played and sounds > perfect. However, playing sound in any other app doesn't sound as > good. It's crackly, like old vinyl, and quite a bit lower in volume. > > Looking at s-c-s, the command it runs to play the test sound is > essentially: > > aplay -D plughw:0,0 -N /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav > > Running this directly, sound is great. Removing the -Dplughw:0,0 > results in sh crackly, subpar sound. > > I don't know alsa configuration all that well, so I was hoping someone > here might be able to point me in the right direction. > I don't know your soundcard, but on many cards there are channels that interfere with others. Run alsamixer from a user console and experiment. You'll probably find that there is one channel that has to be muted. When you've sorted it do 'alsactl store'. Anne
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