Ensoniq Audio PCI ES1370- no CD-Audio !

Ensoniq Audio PCI ES1370- no CD-Audio !

[David Jander]

Hi all,

A friend recently installed Red-Hat 6.0, and since he is a newbie, I helped him
configuring the sound-card, an Ensoniq Audio PCI ES-1370
I compiled the kernel (2.2.5) with support for the ES-1370, and everything
worked fine, except for some "details":

1.- CD-audio does not sound: Apparently the mixer DOS not support the CD-audio
channel correctly, is that true ? Anybody knows about this issue ? Any
newer kernel/driver version fixes this ? Maybe ALSA ? 
Under Windoze, it works fine, i.e. you can hear CD-audio and control the
volume with the mixer, but in linux... silence (well... noise actually) !

2.- Sound output has a constant background noise, just as if one mixer channel
(with noise) was wide open, when all mixer sliders are at zero position. This
also does not occur under Windoze.

Thanks for any advice ...


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Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI ES1370- no CD-Audio !

[Bill Nottingham]

David Jander (djander@alumnos.utfsm.cl) said: 
> 1.- CD-audio does not sound: Apparently the mixer DOS not support the CD-audio
> channel correctly, is that true ? Anybody knows about this issue ? Any
> newer kernel/driver version fixes this ? Maybe ALSA ? 

Set the CD audio as the recording source - that should cause it
to work (this is fixed under ALSA, IIRC.)

Bill