Apologies if this has already been answered ... I have tried to search the archives but
have had no luck.
Today I installed alsa drivers, etc. on my main system ... I'm running on RedHat 8.0,
and
I downloaded the src rpms from freshmeat, built and installed them. I read through the
documentation and got the correct modules loaded -- well almost.
I can play wav and '.au' files, as well as CD's, and games such as q3 arena and unreal
tournament 2003 run with their sound working properly.
But I have a couple of questions which I have been unable to track down in the various
documention or from reading sources (OK, I obiously couldn't possibly have read
*everything* -- that's where my questions come in)
I'm having 3 problems:
A) Using gnome-alsamixer, I cannot get bass and treble controls to have
*any* effect whatsoever. I have tried checking and unchecking the
checkbox labeled "Tone" but get the same results no matter what.
B) I haven't figured out how to play midi files (this is why I went to the
alsa drivers -- I have a *large* collection of midi files, some pretty
good, and I was tired of playing them using timidity. Until recently
I had a machine with an AWE64 and the sound from that was awesome, but
none of my machines has an ISA slot any more....). I have the module
snd-emu10k1-synth loaded, but when I built pmidi, it refers to a module
named "snd-synth-emu10k1". I have not yet found anything in the kernel
source tree (alsa-kernel-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14) referenceing this
module, but I may have missed it.
At any rate, I am assuming that my /etc/modules.conf is hosed on this
one. Any suggestions would be greately appreciated in this area.
C) Periodically after playing several wav files (large collection of those,
too -- my wife is a musician) and after running the gnome volume contol,
I get a sine wave out of both channels and no sound files will play at
all. It sounds like plain, old feedback. If it turn down PCM to 0 and
set phone, aux, and ac97 to 0, the sound goes away, but I still cannot
play any wav or .au files. So far the *only* solution I have found is
to reboot. The sound card is a SoundBlaster Live! -- lspci says:
> Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07),
fwiw. I also tried a slightly later card, rev 08, with the same results.
Suggestions on this one?
Sorry to ask so many questions - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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