Steve, A friend for whom I installed a talking Linux system had a similar experience with his onboard sound and has been unable to use his mike very well. Last week I added an sblive card as a second sound card, and now it works like a charm. The interesting thing is that the new card was detected and configured automatically as his primary card, and the onboard sound has become his second sound subsystem. Therefore we did not have to deal with how to use a second sound card. That was a pleasant surprise. Chuck On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm really tempted to install a second card in my machine as I'm not > happy with how ALSA deals with my SI7012 on-board sound card. My MIC > gains are very low and under linux are plain staticy. I can't even > use the reflector effectively. My soundblaster live card used to be > great though that was in a different machine. I also get a repeated > ticking noise whenever I record using arecord on linux. Goldwave > records line input just fine under windows but the mic gain is > extremely low over there too. I'm about to conclude that on-board > sound cards just don't cut it! -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (72% of Full) The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Personal site www.hhs48.com, Software site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
