[ALSA - driver 0000375]: SB Live (Value and 5.1), OSS playback fine, ALSA playback distorted

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A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug.
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https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000375
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Reported By:                azrael7157
Assigned To:                pzad
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Project:                    ALSA - driver
Bug ID:                     375
Category:                   PCI - emu10k1
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Distribution:               Gentoo
Kernel Version:             2.4.20-gentoo-r8
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Date Submitted:             07-10-2004 17:36 CEST
Last Modified:              07-10-2004 18:39 CEST
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Summary:                    SB Live (Value and 5.1), OSS playback fine, ALSA
playback distorted
Description: 
    I'm using a SB Live!. Normally I use the SB Live! Value (CT4780) but it
came with a Dell computer, so I bought a SB Live! 5.1 Digital (SB0220) to
make sure it wasn't one of those crippled soundcards. The issue occurs
with both versions of the SB Live!
    I'm using ALSA 1.0.5 - Gentoo doesn't have alsa-driver 1.0.5a
available yet.
    I have a rather unusual problem - when I try to use ALSA e.g. aplay,
to play back a wav file e.g. one of the KDE wavs, it produces an odd
output. The output is distorted, plays back really slowly, and samples
keep on getting repeated. Once, it took over 5 minutes to play back
/usr/kde/3.1/share/sound/KDE_Startup.wav.
     On a whim, I tried using XMMS through the OSS output - to my suprise
it worked perfectly. In fact, I'm listening to MP3's as I fill out this
bug report.
     I don't know whether this is a driver issue or a mixer one - the
mixer settings are horrendous. However, I managed to get onboard sound to
work (via82xx, now disabled) through ALSA and OSS emulation perfectly fine
on the same PC, so it seems like a SB Live! specific issue.
    I've attached my asound.state in case it is a mixer issue.

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 azrael7157 - 07-10-2004 18:39 CEST 
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Midi playback via pmidi (using hardware or Timidity) doesn't work either.
Haven't tried an OSS midi player yet.

Bug History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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07-10-04 17:36 azrael7157     New Bug                                      
07-10-04 17:36 azrael7157     File Added: asound.state                     
07-10-04 17:36 azrael7157     Distribution              => Gentoo          
07-10-04 17:36 azrael7157     Kernel Version            => 2.4.20-gentoo-r8
07-10-04 17:37 azrael7157     Bug Monitored: azrael7157                    
07-10-04 18:39 azrael7157     Bugnote Added: 0001403                       
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