I think I need a sound/ALSA guru.

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:55 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 02.08.2005 schrieb William Case um 18:38:
> 
> > > > d) CD player - plays.  It is hard to tell whether it is distorted or
> > > > not. The only disk I have handy is bagpipe music.
> > 
> > Just a little joke.  There is no distortion now.
> 
> > > So check that please and change the setting if you find it either in
> > > gnome volume manager or alsamixer in terminal and see if that changes
> > > the sound quality.
> > 
> > It does.  But I am pretty sure (it was over a month ago -- so I can't be
> > 100% certain) I muted the IEC958.  Maybe it was through gnome volume
> > manager. This time I used alsamixer and it seems to have stuck.  Is it
> > possible the gnome volume manager is not working correctly.  Anyhow, the
> > distortion seems to have been corrected.  (BTW, What is IEC958??) 

It appears to be a control for the SPDIF (sic) digital output (from
google).

> 
> Glad to hear :)
> Sorry, don't know about "IEC958".
>  
> > > > /etc/modprobe.conf
> > > > alias eth0 8139too
> > > > options bttv tuner=2
> > > 
> > > There should be more entries, at least for your sound setup.
> > 
> > What should I do about it??
> 
> These 2 lines should be in your /etc/modprobe.conf:
> 
> install snd-ens1371 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ens1371 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371
> 
> Although those are just for storing the mixer settings.
> 
> > Bugzilla just sent me the following:
> > Summary: distorted sound with es1371
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161279
> > Added new HW switch to c-s-c (in rawhide) to bypass dmix.
> > 
> > The change seems to be only in "rawhide" -- a RedHat version.  Does this
> > mean anything for my sound problems?
> 
> I means that a future version could/would fix the issue. I can't advise
> you how easy it would be for you to use part from development / rawhide
> (ALSA and s-c-s.

There would be multiple dependency issues attempting to pull the new
system-config-soundcard from rawhide.  It might be prudent to wait for
the fix to be released in FC4.

Bob...

> 
> > My other problems persist. 
> 
> Maybe someone else can jump in.
> 
> > Regards Bill
> 
> Alexander