Did ESD sound get very bad with the last update for anyone else?
Caerie Houchins
cdhouch at pobox.com
Fri Apr 29 15:02:11 UTC 2005
Caerie Houchins wrote:
> Since the last update I've found that my sound coming through ESD is
> very crackly and bad. ALSA seems just fine and when I play anything
> through aplay it sounds perfect.
>
> It is possible that I've just not noticed the sound being this bad
> before, but I'm fairly certain I would have. GAIM's receive wav has
> always been annoying, but now it sounds like its being dragged accross
> a cheese grator :) Same with anything using sound via Firefox and the
> flash plugin. I did read the previous thread on ESD sound being bad
> on the list here, but at the time that came out I wasn't having any
> problems.
>
> /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [SB0400 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
> Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102)
> at 0xe800, irq 5
>
> /proc/asound/modules
> 0 snd_emu10k
I take that back, it may not be ESD after all. I've been experimenting
with dmix and if I do a :
aplay -D plug:dmix receive.wav
Its very crackily and bad. However:
aplay receive.wav
plays fine.
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