I have an es18xx
sound card on a Compaq Armada laptop, Redhat7.2 and amazingly I have
succeeded in installing and testing the alsa drivers. All the IRQs and DMA and
addresses are fine because:
$ play
english.au
this works fine and
Linus talks clearly to me.
However RealOne (and
realplayer 8) just make a terrible noise.
I managed to
reproduce this noise by doing
$ cat english.au
> /dev/dsp
where I could barely
hear Linus at all
and slightly less
bad, but still terrible
$ cat english.au
> /dev/audio
which leads me to
think that native (i.e. alsa) sound is working fine, but oss-emulation is
dreadful, which appears to be what realplayer uses
Is there anything I
can do? Or is this just the state of the drivers?
Help would be
welcome
Stuart
