On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:58:51AM +0000, Paul Sargent wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Nikolai Hlubek wrote: > > > I would be grateful for any suggestion, > > and please no "use alsa instead" replies. > > Nikolai > > I guess you've been onto the via-kernel driver list. That seems to be the > standard response on there. Odd for a development list. > > I've heard, although I don't know if it's true, that some of the ac'97 > codecs which are used with the Via chipset are locked to 48KHz only, and so > this is actually a limitation of the hardware. The driver needs to perform > sample rate conversion to play anything else. > > I believe ALSA does it, and the kernel driver doesnt. > > Fortunatley mine doesn't have this problem, so this is only hearsay.
Sorry should have read your message, didn't realise it was kernel version dependant. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]