00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. K8T NEO 2 motherboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19 I/O ports at c400 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 I am really confused now.. I have no idea what I have done, but it seems like it sounds pleasant now, as compared to what I got previously. I can only remember I changed all the ALSA as my sound driver for all option in the Sound Preferences, and I disabled software sound mixing (ESD) in the Sounds tab. Hmm.. could anyone explain to me the relevance of what I did with the sound? I know I will never get to learn anything if I just 'let it be since it is fixed'. <div>On 5/13/07, Ed Greshko <<a href="mailto:Ed.Greshko@greshko.com">Ed.Greshko@greshko.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Guo Lin wrote: > Thank you for replying. > > I play the same mp3 on my FC6 and WinXP on the same PC using the same > speakers. But they sounds really different. I find the music turns > crappy in FC6. I use default settings for the equalizers/mixers etc. For > acapella music, it does not sound too differently between that in FC6 > and WinXP. The 'crappiness' of the music is more significant when the > drums, bass, etc come in the music. The music sounds like it is played > on old bad speakers. > > Sorry for my bad English. I hope you can understand what I am trying to > express. ^.^" > > I just found out that when I play the mp3 in mpg321 in terminal, it > sounds as good as it is played in Windows. But when the same song is > played using other players, they sound much worse than that. I do not > know what this could mean but I hope by stating this can help someone to > identify the problem and eventually help me to overcome it. =) Could you run "lspci -v" as root and post the output that is associated with your sound card or sound hardware? > > > On 5/13/07, *Tim* <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>>> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 17:05 +0800, Guo Lin wrote: > > Hi, I am a very new user of Fedora Core 6. Since I started to use FC6, > > I notice significant difference in sound quality as compared to > > Windows. > > As far as I notice, the sound in FC6 turns noticably bad especially > > when bass comes in the music. > > Beyond some fault causing distortion, I can't see why one would be > different than the other, it's the same hardware producing the sound. > The only think I can think of is: Are you boosting the bass in Windows, > and noticing that difference? I haven't seen tone controls on a Linux > control panel, and artificially boosting bass doesn't really compensate > for crappy speakers. > > The other thing that springs to mind, is having a duff audio cable, > where the ground isn't properly connected. Instead of getting left and > right signals, you end up with a mono signal comprised of left minus > right, which seriously drops the bass down, as well as introducing other > odd phasing errors. > > What are you playing, though? And how are you listening? MP3s were > notorious for having crap bass, and a less than brilliant decoder > doesn't help. > > And what do you mean by bad? Distorting? Lacking in bass? Something > else? > > For what it's worth, on my various PCs, the sound sounds the same > whatever OS is driving it. For any file format (an ogg on Windows > versus an ogg on Linux, and so on, but not ogg versus MP3), and whether > using those crappy PC speakers, or the Wharfedales on the stereo system. > > -- > (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>> > To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > > -- Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] -- Ovid -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>