On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:28:08PM +0000, Esdras Beleza de Noronha wrote: > > I'm having a very, very strange problem with XFree 3.3.6. > > > > I have a SiS 6326 (it uses the XF86_SVGA server) and a CMI 8330/SB16 > > soundcard, and they're configured. > > When I run X using the 16 bpp resolution, my sound is very, very bad, > > with creaks. But when I run it using 8 bpp, the sound is very good. > > > > I tried ask this to half Linux community, but nobody gave me a solution. > > Can you help me? > > Perhaps someone else on debian-user could share their experiences with this > person? > > The only thing I can think of that is that whatever you're doing in 16bpp > puts more demands on the host processor than 8bpp mode. This is definitely > going to be true in situations where the host CPU does a lot of "blitting"
Hi, I actually have a sis5513 with the cmi 8330 so i assume it may have similar h/w bugs. I don't have linux on this atm, but will try it if you still have troubles. I would ask the following. 1. what resolution are you running at? 1024x768 may be more efficient as far as acceleration goes than say 1280xwhatever. 2. did you use pnpdump to configure the card, or did you just use the values in linux/Documentation/sound? _possibly_ your m/b is slightly more modern and the preferred isapnp values are different. 3. have you tried www.alsa-project.org? 4. What sound / what games are giving you the problem? I don't have any mp3's or doom's to try out so i might as well use whatever is giving you trouble. Regards, Mark.
