On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:04:14 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > Do you have the same sound problems when playing an audio cd, or playing > music files (.ogg, .mp3)? Nope, no such problem. > If it is Pulseaudio causing the problem, and you don't use it for > anything specific, you could just disable it by removing the package > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. If you are using KDE like me, this will also > remove the package kde-settings-pulseaudio. By doing this your audio > apps will revert to using Alsa directly. If any of the games you play > use SDL, you will need to add the following line to /home/<user>/.bashrc > , which will remove the hack that SDL programs need to use Pulseaudio. > > unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER Thanks for the tip. >> This is my sound card: >> >> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio >> Controller (rev 02) >> >> [root@ws log]# grep -i hda dmesg >> HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 HDA >> Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64 hda_codec: Unknown >> model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS... ALSA >> sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3021: autoconfig: line_outs=4 >> (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) >> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3025: speaker_outs=0 >> (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) >> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3029: hp_outs=1 >> (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3030: mono: >> mono_out=0x0 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3038: inputs: mic=0x18, >> fmic=0x19, line=0x1a, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0 > > What is the make and model of your Laptop/PC ? It's home-made with an Asus motherboard. I'll post the details when I get back home. > > Can you post the output from the following commands. > > cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17. > grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec* /sbin/lspci -vn (just > the bit for the soundcard) Codec: Realtek ALC883 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:8277 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 Memory at f9ff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?> Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel > Did the sound just work ok post install of F10, or did you have to set > model options for snd-hda-intel? Didn't set anything. Sounds works ok without PA (used to run under Ubuntu w/o PA) > There are a whole bunch of model options for the ALC883 codec, some of > which may give you more sliders/controls in alsamixer, when run as user > in a terminal. To see all the controls when pulseaudio is enabled, you > will have to open alsamixer as below, otherwise you will only see one > control for pulseaudio. > > alsamixer -D hw:0 > > Crackling sounds can be a problem to resolve. I know that pulseaudio can > be responsible for low volume output, and if you are having to push the > volume up to 100% to get decent sound levels to your speakers, it could > be that the card is being pushed beyong it's capabilities. It's > interesting that when you don't use pulseaudio, the sound is ok. > > I'll give you a list of model options when you post back, but I need to > know the alsa driver version, that's on F10 first. > > All the best. > > Nigel. Thanks for your help. One other problem I notice with PA is that sometimes the sound sounds saturated, as if it was compressed up and then scaled back down. I have this problem after playing around with various volume settings (either pa- volume or alsamixer etc) The main problem here is the CPU usage, which is strange. Any idea what causes this? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines