On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. > > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. > > Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP. > > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but > there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I had this > behavior both with emu10k1 v0.7 included with the 2.2.20 source, and > emu10k1 v0.18 that I just downloaded from SourceForge. I tried playing > with various mixer settings, but that didn't help. The only way I could > get rid of the hissing was by turning the volume all the way down. > > Other sound operations, like playing MP3s or WAVs in xmms, work fine; no > hissing or static at all. (I only tried this with v0.18 of the driver, > though.) > > I don't know that many things use /dev/audio any more, so this isn't > that big a deal, but I'd like to get this working---especially because I > typically use english.au from www.kernel.org to test the sound system > after I change things. Nice, easy, and short.
I wonder if it's meant to work. "cat english.au > /dev/audio" on my system also sounds horrible, but the same file sounds fine when played with xanim, esdplay or "play". I actually don't know where "play" came from. "bplay", from the bplay package, sounds horrible just like cat does. I think cat'ing the file _used_ to sound OK on the old sound card (SB16) that I had before the the SBLive. ...RickM...