Bad sound with AC97 and AMD 64 X2 (Gigabyte K8N Pro SLI)

[Dan Hensley]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 06:36 -0400, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
> >>I have sound, but it sounds horrific.  It's very scratchy--even system
> >>sounds from Gnome sound bad.  Also with sound on my clock keeps jumping
> >>forward.  My system seemed to act fairly good with sound turned off in
> >>my BIOS.
> >>    
> >>
> >  I'm wondering if I should go buy a SBLive or something.
> >Does anyone have any idea if this has a chance of fixing my sound
> >problem?
> >  
> >
> 
> I have the same board. If you read the reviews, they talk about the
> lousy sound for the onboard.

The reviews I read said that the sound was basically entry-level.  Which
is fine with me.  I don't need surround sound or anything fancy like
that.  It turns out that this problem is not at all related to the smp
kernel problem I originally thought, but is an esound bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158571
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140999

It sure would be nice to get an esound update.

When I applied the suggestions in the comments, sound cleaned right up.

Dan


> I use it as a server so never even bothered trying the sound.
> But yes, purchasing a SB card would help.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
>