Re: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems

On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:11, Folderol wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:34:33 +0200
>
> Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > Folderol wrote:
> > > I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am having problems with
> > > it:)
> > >
> > > Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
> > > driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
> >
> > Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards?
>
> I've never worked out how to do this. if I try to load the 'file' I
> just get 100% cpu usage producing nothing.

Hi Folderol. Use cat.
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/version
etc. Nigel.
>
> > > however no applications seem to be able to find the card.
> >
> > Is it listed in the output of "aplay -l"?
>
> This returns
> aplay: device_list:200: no soundcards found...
>
> > > I have also just got a copy of Suse 10 so tried that as well on a
> > > spare hard drive. This time the card is fully recognised, and sound is
> > > produced but is over-loud and distorted when running Amorok. Changing
> > > volume levels doesn't seem to help, and the graphic display on Amorok
> > > clearly shows clipping going on.
> >
> > When Amarok decides to send clipped data to the sound card, the driver
> > cannot help.
>
> I was very puzzled by this as an older version of Amorok used to work
> fine under Mandrake, but I notice this uses the aRts engine (which
> seems to not be available on Suse.
>
> > Regards,
> > Clemens
>
> I am now in the nightmare situation of having a new soundcard which I
> *know* should work (and be far better than the on-board audio) but
> unable to use it on either OS :((
Received on Fri Apr 14 04:15:05 2006