Re: via 686a audio driver rate locked at 48Khz

Sergei Haller
2001-03-02T13:26:14Z

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Wayne Whitney wrote:
> > I have a system with an MSI-6321 motherboard with the Via 686a
> > southbridge, and I'm having a little trouble with the via82cxxx_audio
> > sound driver. The stock 2.4.2 driver produces only a rhythmic a buzzing
> > sound. I saw a patch here a week or two ago for 'rate locking', so I
> > tried that (it didn't apply cleanly to 2.4.2, but I think I applied it by
> > hand correctly).
>
> FYI I sent that change to Linus just now, and posted a quick update on
> the Web site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/

with this 1.1.14b I still can't cat wav files to /dev/dsp but
the aRts deamon (from kde2.0.1) works if I set it to 48000Hz

> > That patch makes some things work fine (e.g. playing a .wav file), but
> > others sound lousy (e.g. playing a 44.1KHz mp3 with xmms). Am I correct
> > in thinking that it sounds lousy because of the translation from 44.1KHz
> > sampling to 48KHz sampling?

xmms is playing also using the aRts output plugin.

c ya
Sergei

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