[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-30 11:40 --- Leaving aside the KMix issue, the other problems described above all seem resolved for me in 9.1 Final so probably this bug report could be closed now. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-14 18:54 --- Well, the final straw was the stuttering/jumping of mp3 playback when I did nothing more then press PageUp or PageDown within my editor. I decided to revert back to 9.0 and now my sound system is all completely back to normal - no changing of settings, no jumping, no stuttering, no KMix problems. Hopefully all of this information might help someone cleverer than me work out what's wrong with sound in 9.1RC2. I can't work without decent mp3 playback :-D --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-11 16:31 --- I'd like to add just one more comment, I'm not sure if it's specifically Game Theater XP Related so apologies if I'd posted this inappropriately, but... I've been using 9.1RC2 and the new kernel as described above for a few days now and use XMMS for mp3 playback. On 9.0 I never noticed any interruption in mp3 playback unless I was doing some Java compilation. Now, I get clicks, stutters, jumps and so on sometimes even if I just switch desktop or ALT-TAB to switch windows. Sometimes it stutters even if I'm not touching the keyboard. It seems mostly OK when _using_ an application, but when I switch to do something else it's really noticeable, and very annoying! My CPU usage doesn't look high. artsd and xmms maybe about 2.5%. I have out-of-the-box sound system settings in KDE, out-of-the-box XMMS etc. Could this be driver related like the original problem appeared to be, or is it worth posting a separate bug report? --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-11 18:04 --- I _do_ have a Game Theater XP. I'm looking at it right now, it's got Game Theater XP written on it ;-) I did update to the new kernel and that definitely improved things a lot but the other problems still stand. KMix volume control applet does not control the volume. The mixer controls sure look duplicated to me, I have two master volume controls for example. The volume slider is really odd too because from 0% to about 60% there is absolute silence, then sliding up from 60 to 99% seems like an exponential increase in volume and there's some really bad distortion at about 95%. But to be honest, I'll accept what you say about KMix because my bigger problem is the choppiness and stuttering of mp3 playback using XMMS. If I alt+tab from one window to another the playback invariably stutters then jumps. In one of my earlier posts I said on switching to the (black-listed) OSS driver most of the problems went away. On 9.0, everything just worked (really!). Thanks! --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-09 11:28 --- I downloaded kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and installed it over RC2. The sound quality problem does indeed seem fixed, so thanks for the info. The only downside is the remaining problem of KMix. The tray applet volume control doesn't control the volume level, and there are still duplicate controls when you open up the mixer itself. At least I can play mp3's again. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-06 20:00 --- This happens for me with my Game Theater XP on 9.1 RC2 too. I managed to find a temporary workaround which is to use draksound to choose the OSS cs46xx driver instead of the auto-detected ALSA snd-cs46xx driver. On making that change, the sound seems OK. However, you get a warning that the cs46xx driver is black-listed and snd-cs46xx is restored on reboot. Additional info that might help someone fix this, if I use draksound to choose the snd-cs46xx driver I get this error message (I have tried to make sure I closed all applications that may be using the sound card): [begin quote] cs46xx: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod snd-cs46xx failed insmod'ing module snd-cs46xx failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 61. [end quote] I find it strange that it says no such device when it seemed like the OSS driver could see the device without any problem. Output from lspci shows this: [begin quote] 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:04.4 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] (rev a3) [end-quote] And finally, here is the last bit of output from dmesg: [begin-quote] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 14:27:51 Feb 28 2003 cs46xx: Card found at 0xed00 and 0xec80, IRQ 10 cs46xx: Hercules Game Theatre XP (1681:0050) at 0xed00/0xec80, IRQ 10 ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: CRY45 (Cirrus Logic CS4294) Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy [end-quote] ...and then it sounds terrible again. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
[Cooker] [Bug 2124] [Hardware] Terrible sound with Hercules Game Theater XP
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-06 20:05 --- In addition, if you open up KMix and then choose show mixer window, you get about 30 mixer controls (seems like a lot of duplicates) when the sound is bad rather than the 8 or 9 you usually get when everything works properly. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1 and sound is terrible with my Hercules Game Theater XP. Volume is very low and when playing anything it crackles a lot and there is a lot of hiss. I tried adjusting volume in mixer but I couldn't get sound to normal. Sound worked just fine in Beta 3.
