I upgraded to KDE 3.2 (also had an upgrade to alsa-driver .9.8) and afterward had bad sound. (I have a Creative PCI 128 card, or something like that, that linux identifies as an Ensoniq 5880, for which alsa uses the ens1371 card drivers, whatever)
Heh. That's because the Createive PCI 128 IS the ensonic 1371 card. I have no idea where the Ensoniq 5880 came from, but basically the story goes like this (I know this becuase I worked for a computer company ahat was buying ensoniq cards exclusively for years at the time this happened). Ensoniq had been releasing several successfull audio cards. When the move went from ISA to PCI, Ensoniq moved easily. However, Creative Labs had failure after failure in their labs. They could not make a PCI version of their card work. So when Ensoniq released their "Ensoniq Audio PCI 2" card Creative labs said "Enough is enough." They BOUGHT ENSONIQ. A few months later The first Creative Labs PCI sound cards were on the market, using the ESS 1371 Chipset (aka Ensoniq Audio PCI 2). Creative Labs reworked the layout of the card to make the card LOOK different, but functionally the Soundblaster 64PCI and the Ensoniq Audio PCI 2 are the exact same card. Since then Each Creative labs sound card (until the Audigy series) has been a further extension on the Ensoniq chipsets :>
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