On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 08:01 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:01 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway > > <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually > > those are > > > pretty well supported, at least in basics. > > > > > > Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What does lspci say > > it is? What > > kind of motherboard is it on? > > > > It's an Azalia on a AMD K9A Platinum. > > > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia > > (and guess what, copy and paste doesn't work into firefox, I had to do > > this manually... I'm getting frustrated...) > > Russell, > > I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a > better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went > to > > http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi > > And downloaded the latest drivers for my kernel. The mixer, drivers and > features are much more mature and easier to work with, plus the latest > sound chips are supported. "Pulseaudio" or whatever it is, is not > needed at all in this scenario. > > In addition to that you get more control over the sound card and more > information about what it's doing. There are also conf files you can > get to in order to customize stuff. > > I've had problems with alsa from day one, ever since I started > attempting to record radio broadcasts over the internet. I got away > from that stuff a long time ago. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and I just installed OSS. I had a key that I got from Hannu, about 10 years ago, now I can't find it. <chuckles> For $10 I was entitled to life time updates. So, I just ditched alsa, everything works nicely. Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
