[ALSA - driver 0001725]: SB Audigy SE Not Working with Quake 4, Doom 3

bugtrack
2006-01-09T13:41:19Z

Status: acknowledged
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Kernel Version: 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
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Date Submitted: 01-08-2006 17:35 CET
Last Modified: 01-09-2006 14:41 CET
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Summary: SB Audigy SE Not Working with Quake 4, Doom 3
Description:
On FC3, I have compiled and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc2 and
alsa-lib-1.0.11rc2 in order to be able to use a recently purchased Audigy
SE.

Regular playback is working (speaker-test and aplay both work, as does
Amarok with Alsa selected for playback). Skype playback does work, but is
horribly choppy (unusable really), unlike my other card, an old SB Live!
1024 player.

However, the Audigy SE does not work with Quake 4 and Doom 3. There is
some output, but it is just a collection of random sounds. I have tried
both stereo and 5.1 configurations. Also, output must be sent through the
plug plugin or the games complain about a sampling mismatch (48KHz found
but 44.1KHz required).

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jcdutton - 01-09-06 11:05
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Acknowledged, but unlikely to be fixed any time soon.

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rlrevell - 01-09-06 14:41
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So does the design of this hardware exposes a limitation in the design of
ALSA, or would you say the hardware is just broken? Are you saying it
can't even generate interrupts at the period boundary at 44.1 KHz? Does
the hardware design depend on some Windows feature (like sub HZ timers)?

I guess there were no soundcards with a similar design when ALSA was
written?

Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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01-08-06 17:35 malk271 New Issue
01-08-06 17:35 malk271 Distribution => Fedora Core 3
01-08-06 17:35 malk271 Kernel Version => 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
01-08-06 21:48 rlrevell Note Added: 0007527
01-08-06 21:49 rlrevell Note Added: 0007528
01-09-06 09:47 malk271 Note Added: 0007532
01-09-06 09:48 malk271 Note Added: 0007533
01-09-06 11:04 jcdutton Note Added: 0007534
01-09-06 11:05 jcdutton Note Added: 0007535
01-09-06 11:05 jcdutton Status assigned => acknowledged
01-09-06 14:41 rlrevell Note Added: 0007536