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Re: Sound problems...

Well, by default if your using Fedora, which it sounds like. GNOME should use ALSA. Another sound server gnome can use is ESD
personally I prefer ESD over alsa because it allows for more than one application to use the sound device at a time. For example, GAIM
would normally use ALSA, but you can change gaims preferences to use ESD instead, you can do the same with XMMS, so then whenever you
start both the programs, instead of one locking the sound device they will both connect to it though a program called esddsp and it will pipe their
output to the sound device.
As for the low quality of sound, that probably because you have PCM turned up to high. The two main audio controls on most sound cards are
Master and PCM.
If PCM gets turned up to high things have a tennancy to become very very very ugly.
So I would suggest, setting PCM to about 30-40. And set Master to about 80-90 and then udjusting your actuall speakers accordingly. Then
the gnome sounds should sound less ugly.

    ----- Kyle Pointer



On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:50 -0600, Ken Keefe wrote: 
So I think there is something wrong with gnome's sound server. If I use
System Setting -> Soundcard Detection, the little guitar riff plays
perfectly crystal clear. Also, all of my ogg files play with no
distortion. I have turned on gnome's sound server to play sounds at
various events like start up or shut down and the sound quality is
awful. It is very distorted. Also, I just happened to start Tux Racer to
test out my new video driver and it turns out that that game has a
soundtrack! Hmm, never heard that before. Well, the music in Tux Racer
is also really bad. So what is going on? This is probably some mixer
setting somewhere that is set to high, but I checked alsamixer and gnome
sound mixer (the one in the system tray) and I have set them both to
around 70%.

Also, does anyone have any suggestions for where I can find some sound
schemes to use with gnome?

Thanks,
Ken

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