Bill, seems I can control both an external analog input AND my aplay filename.wav output by a tool called "gamix" -- and it sounds good. So I suspect as you do that my Jack is Jacked up. I'll post in a jack forum if I can't figure it out. Anything going through Jack is garbled/distorted and thru Alsa not -- so I guess this a Jack attack! Dave suggested I may want to upgrade alsa in the kernel and I am not ruling this out.. but I do think I need to investigate Jack further. Thanks alot, Ronan On 1/17/07, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, ronan mcallister wrote: > > > Hi, I have Suse 10.1 with recent updates -- my YaST HW info shows I > > have the ALSA 1.0.13 (stable) release, and I am having problems with > > this sound card -- when playing back WAV files through ALSAplayer > > (after starting Jack with "jackd -R -dalsa -r44100 -p1024" I get very > > garbled (and loud) audio. > > First find out where the problem is. If you can play a wave file in Amarok, > I highly doubt that the problem is with alsa. > > Do not start jackd. Instead just do > aplay name_of.wav > > do you get the system playing the wave file. If you do alsamixer, where are > the mixer settings for the playback? > > In fact amarok uses alsa, so your alsa is fine I believe. There is no > reason to change alsa. > However your setup of jack may be borked. I do not use jack so I cannot > tell. > > > > > > Although I can playback a WAV file by Amarok just fine... > > > > How do I update my system via Suse YaST to install the development > > ALSA packages or do I need to install this manually per > > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card=ICH+southbridge+HD-audio+and+modem.&chip=ICH6%2C+ICH6M%2C+ICH7%2C+ESB2&module=hda-intel > > > > I see in the "changes" doc that the 1.0.14rc1/2 releases have several > > fixes for the HDA Intel chip. > > > > # lsmod | grep -i intel > > snd_hda_intel 21652 0 > > snd_hda_codec 139136 1 snd_hda_intel > > snd_pcm 86532 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec > > snd 56708 11 > > > snd_rtctimer,snd_seq_dummy,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > > snd_page_alloc 13576 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > intel_agp 24988 1 > > agpgart 33352 1 intel_agp > > > > > > Thanks alot, > > Ronan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-user mailing list > > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > > -- > William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 > Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 > UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
