Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ICE1712 Envy24 in Mandrake 8.0
From: Jason (hormonex_AT_yankthechain.com)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 13:11:38 EET
Ah! That's probably it there, I've got ALSA 0.5something on that machine.
I'll try putting that on and see if it fixes the issue. someone elsewhere
suggested recompiling Gnome in some specific way, which I'm going to read
up on and try. Anyone
else have similar trouble? I'm thinking there should be a searchable
knowledge base for soundcard specific problems somewhere? anyone know of
such an animal?
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Frank Barknecht
wrote:
> Jason hat gesagt: // Jason wrote:
>
> > I've actually been having some weird ALSA/Envy24 (Delta 1010) issues
> > with Mandrak 8.1 as well, as in, everything looks okay on the surface
> > and the card is recognized, but everytime I try to run an application
> > that wants to use that card, it either doesn't work, or in the case of
> > Gnome apps crashes the system. It's not big on my list of priorities
> > really, so I haven't played with it much, but this email reminded me
> > that it was something I was planning on asking the list.
>
> The ICE1712 chip set is a bit strange, if you're used to comsumer
> soundcards like Soundblasters. I found, that ALSA's OSS emulation does
> not fully work on this cards, e.g the OSS mixer doesn't work, and
> recording via OSS gives me junk here. Quake 3 also doesn't handle the
> ICE card. But if you stay with ALSA native tools, like arecord, aplay
> or some professional audio apps like ecasound or MusE, I have found no
> problems with my M-Audio 2496 Audiophile. Make sure, you're using the 0.9
> branch of ALSA, at least beta7. I don't know about the Dio card, though.
>
> bye,
>
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