Re: Soundcard amd mplayer

On 16 Jul 2006 17:48:10 -0700, iforone staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
iforone wrote:
Have you disabled the Onboard sound in the BIOS ?
Why would this change anything? It's possible for Linux to run
multiple soundcards without screwing up. You just have to tell your
apps to send data to /dev/sound/dsp1 instead of /dev/sound/dsp0 , or
Because that's what most mobo manuals say you must/should do (when you
add a PCI soundcard)

What? Were the motherboard designers on crack, or paying Malaysian
Crack Monkeys to design their boards, or write the manuals?

Likely from it's onboard chip occupying the same address registers
that a PCI soundcard would use

This is doubtful. The PCI standards were explicitly designed so that
PCI devices wouldn't step on each other's I/O port ranges, and would be
able to share ISA IRQs.

good start for t-shooting, especially on 'cheaper' mobos.

The best way to troubleshoot a cheap-ass x86 motherboard is to use a
12-gauge. On an x86, the motherboard is the most complex and annoying
thing to troubleshoot and/or replace. If you buy a cheap motherboard,
you *will* pay for it in terms of time and frustration and non-working
pieces of hardware. BTDTGTTS, which is why I buy boards from reasonably
reputable manufacturers like Abit, Asus, and FIC.

mplayer doesn't use that [4-wire] cable at all for playing mp3s or
audio data embedded in ASF/AVI/MOV/whatever files.
Are you sure about that ?

Yes. The 4-wire cable is there so that the CD-R* device can read CDDA,
do the D->A right on the drive, and push the A sound directly to the
soundcard. It is not common for a CD-R* device to be able to decode mp3
data in that way. *Possible*, sure, but there's no guarantee, and it'd
surprise me if there's a standard interface for those functions.

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