Re: Red Hat 9 - OSS High Pitched Sound on PCG-V505BX

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:51, John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:47 am, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
> > John Andersen wrote:
> > > What about alsa?
> >
> > I have not tested alsa yet. Is alsa part of redhat 9 or does it have to
> > be installed / compiled?
> >
> > jcsitte
> 
> Don't know, I'm a SuSE user and have not had this problem.
> 
> SuSE uses oss, and pipes all kde sounds thru artsd to multitask
> the sound card.  With that combination I have never needed alsa
> and, quite frankly, never found it any better than oss on any
> machine I've tried it on.

for most chips it doesn't make a difference -- but there is a bug in the
OSS i810 driver that causes this chipmunk sound, and that bug doesn't
exist in the ALSA i810 driver, so there it does make a difference.
-- 
Jack Coates
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