Sound config for Intel HDA (ICH7)

[Todd Zullinger]

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Anne Wilson wrote:
> I don't know your soundcard, but on many cards there are channels
> that interfere with others.  Run alsamixer from a user console and
> experiment.  You'll probably find that there is one channel that has
> to be muted.  When you've sorted it do 'alsactl store'.

Yep.  I've been through that on other systems.  So I had checked that
out previously (and again now for good measure).  No combination I've
tried does anything to make improve the sound quality.

And regardless of the mixer settings, using -Dplughw:0,0 works
wonderfully, while leaving it off and having the default PCM be
whatever system-config-soundcard and alsa have it at, the sound is
crackly.

I did just find that disabling dmix improves things considerably.  I
could have sworn I had tried this before, but I must not have had
something toggled right.

Thanks Anne.

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