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