Re: Problems with Turtle Beach sound card on SuSE 8.1

Magnar Olsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.multimedia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul wrote:

> Magnar Strand Olsen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently installed SuSE 8.1, and it generally installed like a dream,
>> detected my hardware all right - although I did have to change the
>> soundcard from CS 42?? to CS 46xx (I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz).
>> Now, the sound from the card is very distorted - it sounds like the 
>> sound
>> is coming from a tin can.  On my previous SuSE install (8.0) it sounded
>> wonderful.
>> I know ALSA has been upgraded since SuSE 8.0, and that the sound drivers
>> for the Santa Cruz has been modified (it now accepts more than one
>> simultaneous audio stream).
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced problems of this kind, is there a fix, or is
>> there a fault in the driver?
>
>
> acpi can cause sound problems like that.  If you boot with acpi=off is 
> the sound still dodgy?


Yes, I tried that after reading your reply - I also tried booting with 
the failsafe option.  The sound is still tinny...

Magnar.
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