Jonathan Cromwell wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm running aRTS as part of the KDE2.1beta2 RPMs for Mandrake. Non-aRTS sound
> works fine and sounds good. Anything that goes through aRTS however sounds
> very distorted/compressed (unusably distorted). I've twiddled everything I
> can think of to twiddle, but to no avail. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> Just in case its relevant: I've got onboard VIA 686a sound that did not work
> "out of the bag" for me. I had to install the ALSA drivers and add the
> following to my /etc/modules.conf, I lifted it off a website and don't
> understand what its doing:
>
> # ALSA native device support
> alias char-major-116 snd
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
> #next line might need to have snd_id, if so...
> options snd-card-interwave snd_index=0 # see below
shouldn't snd-card-interwave not be snd-card-via868a?
>
> # OSS/Free setup
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Remco Poelstra
