FC4 poor sound with gnome - kde ok
Jonathan Berry
berryja at gmail.com
Sat Jun 25 19:55:06 UTC 2005
On 6/25/05, mal <malcolm at interele.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a PC with an Intel High Defination Audio ( RealTek Azalia ) sound
> chip
>
> If I use gnome the sound is very poor - it has clicks and crackles
> when ever there is sound
> - it's not there when the sound is quiet or silent
>
> If I start with KDE and use the control panel to set the kde sound
> system as OSS the
> sound is perfect
>
> ... the problems is I don't want to use kde
>
>
> has anyone any ideas - is this an alsa problem - I previous post
> suggested playing with the mixer
> but I've tweaked every setting in the alsa mixer I can find to no avail
>
> thanks
>
> mal
Hi Mal,
It seems to be ESD. ALSA works fine for me, but stuff like event
sounds was crackly like you described. This fixed my problem:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg03756.html
You also might checkout the follow up to it.
Jonathan
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