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

On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:59 am, Jack Coates wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, I have several I810 machines (none Vaios) that have no
such problem and no chipmunks.  Are you sure this is not
Distro Dependent??

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John Andersen - NORCOM
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