[Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-07-30 Thread Troy Heidner
Hello everyone, I'm new to the list here, and I'm fairly new to linux as well. I have an older Gateway Solo 5150 laptop computer that I'm trying to run Fedora Core 6 on. It's a PII-400 with 288MB of RAM. I have gotten nearly EVERYTHING working splendidly with the exception of sound. I know tha

[Alsa-user] Compiling alsa-driver on Fedora 7

2007-07-30 Thread nikosapi
Hello, I have a Lenovo 3000 V200 which doesn't mute the built-in speakers when I plug in headphones. It uses the snd_hda_intel kernel module and alsamixer says it has a Conexant CX20549 (Venice) chipset. Looking through the bug reports I found bug 2933 which seems to be similar to mine and the

Re: [Alsa-user] Bose Companion 5 - any experiences?

2007-07-30 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > To all who are thinking about real 5.1 versus headphones - do not forget > at least two important things: > > 1) sound perception greatly depend on reverberation, so a headphones solution > should take care of this too; reverb in an 8x10 room is tota

Re: [Alsa-user] Bose Companion 5 - any experiences?

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Smith
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Uli wrote: > I wanna get rid of my 10 year old crappy speakers and I'm looking for some > really high class speakers and sound card. http://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/03/what_about_bose.html Sound Card Suggestions... PCI: http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products

Re: [Alsa-user] Bose Companion 5 - any experiences?

2007-07-30 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Uli wrote: > Bill Unruh physics.ubc.ca> writes: > [snip] >> There is a real problem between price and quality and exactly what you want >> with the end result. As I said, if you are handy with tools, making your >> own speakers is probably the way to go, but that is useless i