On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I have set up esd on a machine that has a via868 soundcard. I compiled > the latest alsa driver. The sound works nicely without any problem. Even > having several programs playing sound at the same time works (which was > the reason I started using esd, so that galeon would stop hanging every > time it came to a page with flash.) I had tried this earlier, but then > esd added noice on top of the sound. > > However when I try to do the same with a another machine that has a > intel820 soundcard (using alsa here too) I get noise added to the sound, > usually in the right channel. Same happens with artsd. > > Does anybody know why this happens and is there a way I can fix this? > I'm going to setup for a third machine where the soundcard is via8233. > > thanks in advance.
I don't know about your specific problem, but you can find general tips to improve sound quality in the Audio Quality HOWTO: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/ -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs