[SATLUG] sound prob on new linux box

[Andrew Benson]

I had an MSI board with the AC'97 sound. Noticed a few things:

1) ALSA did not work well, OSS worked perfectedly.
2) Mixer settings always act weird from the beginning.

Check those two things -- not sure how do it with the Red Hat based distros.

Just out of curiosity, which MSI board do you have?

// Drew


>From: "Donn D." <snafu at urdirect.net>
>Reply-To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List" 
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>To: satlug at satlug.org
>Subject: [SATLUG] sound prob on new linux box
>Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:42:07 -0500
>
>I assembled a new machine  2 weks ago, and installed FC2 on it.  My 
>previous linux experience,  over the last year or 2 (mandrake 8.1 & 9.0, 
>and then RH9, then FC1) was on a machine without any speakers connected to 
>it.  Therefore, I don't really have any experience with messing with sound 
>on linux yet.
>
>Anyway, my new machine has an MSI mobo, with AC97 sound.  I'm using the 
>on-board sound.  When I play an audio CD, the sound is nice and loud.  When 
>I select an mp3 or ogg from my hard drive, the sound (at least in xmms) is 
>very low and I can barely hear it.
>
>Any pointers?  Maybe I have to do something in xmms regarding audio plugins 
>or something?
>
>Donn
>
>
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