Re: normal sound on i865G ?

From: Clemens Ladisch (clemens_at_ladisch.de)
Date: 10/20/04


Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:54:39 +0200

Yog The Barbarian wrote:
> i have sound on my linux pc, but the quality is realy bad,
> especialy when playing mp3s - sounds like phone...i use ALSA, tried
> OSS - no difference :(
>
> my mboard is Gigabyte, chipset Intel 865G, AC97 AUDIO on board
>
> first i tried Fedora C2, it found everything - video, sound etc...
> but the sound is like phone :( i tried to change the settings for mpeg
> layer - no efect, mp3's had very bad quality i any player (i use
> standart mpeg123 layer)
>
> then i've disabled the onboard soundcard and pluged old stereo Genius
> Crystal CS4281 soundcard - stil no improvement, it was detected,
> correct driver found...but the sound remained the same...

If two different sound cards have the same bad sound quality, it's
probably a speaker problem. What kind of speakers do you have
connected to the PC?

> actualy i tried both distros (Fedora&Slack) at home (NForce2+AMD) -
> both worked perfect - the sound was great..video etc...

Did you use the same speakers there?

Regards,
Clemens



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