Lo, on Monday, March 4, dave mallery did write: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Greetings, all. > > > > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so > > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. > > > > Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP. > > > > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to > > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but > > there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I had this > > behavior both with emu10k1 v0.7 included with the 2.2.20 source, and > > emu10k1 v0.18 that I just downloaded from SourceForge. I tried playing > > with various mixer settings, but that didn't help. The only way I could > > get rid of the hissing was by turning the volume all the way down. > > did you mute all the other inputs on the mixer?
Just tried it. No luck. As I remarked elsewhere in the thread, though, play(1) from the sox package works quite nicely. Richard
