[ssam] new beta...sorta.

Scott Tyson scott at therubberroom.org
Mon Jan 6 00:19:10 EST 2003


Thanks!

I removed the also modules and went back to my old sounddriver, whatever
RH ships since it sounds 1000x better than the alsa, and now Serious Sam
works just fine, no sound clipping or anything.  shrug.

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 05:37, Michi wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 09:18, Scott Tyson wrote:
> > I got things working.  Alsa driver fixed the problem.  Don't have the
> > driver "tuned" yet but I did manage to get some sound to play.  Doesn't
> > sound as god as the RH 8.0 driver. Do you have a Santa Cruz card? 
> no. using CMI8738 onboard sound atm. redhat uses standart oss lite
> kernel drivers which don't support the CMI8738 so i have to use ALSA.
> no problem 'cause everyone will be using ALSA sooner or later...
> 
> > If so can I see your /etc/modules.conf entrys for it?
> well i dont have the cruz but the modules.conf entrys should be:
> 
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx
> # module options should go here
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 	
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
> for module options read
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Turtle+Beach&card=Santa+Cruz&chip=CS4630&module=cs46xx#opt
> 
> 
> after the drivers are installed run
> $ amixer set Master 100
> $ amixer set PCM 100 unmute
> $ amixer set CD 100 unmute
> # /usr/sbin/alsactl store
> 
> you can also use a mixer app like alsamixer.
> 
> you can then use
> $ /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> to restore the alsa profile (stored in /etc/asound.state)
> 
> 
> from what i've heard alsa's cruz drivers aren't bad so i hope you get
> them to work...
> 
> 
> bye
> 
> hcat





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