----- Original Message -----
From: "-mp" <info(a)nephridium.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: Repost: FC3: Static on VIA AC97 Audio Controller
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.
One strange thing I have noticed with the AC-97 card I have is that I had
problems playing files like wav files on the pcm 1 channel, but as soon as I
turned pcm 1 down to 0 and pcm 2 up to 75 or better the wav files played
fine.
Not sure what the deal is, but something is screwed.