Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:19 +0100 From: Bartosz Piotr Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Poor sound quality on FreeBSD with various sound cards... Message-ID: <3C7B9313.1060502@chillt.de>
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Hi! I have a problem with sound on my FreeBSD 4.5 system. I've been using a SoundBLASTER Live! for a few years now under a Redmont operating system and the sound quality has always been superb. As it has a digital mixer, I had main volume and PCM set to 100% and always got great sound. Now, under FreeBSD, I tried many MP3 players (including MPG123, XMMS, KMP3, Noatun) and all give me muffled sound, where especially the bass is extremely distorted. This is really weird since I know the sound card works perfectly... The sound gets significantly better when I set PCM volume to 80%, but I was not satsified with that solution as before switching to FreeBSD as my main OS I wanted to have this problem properly fixed. Having heard that many people have had problems with the SoundBLASTER Live! drivers in FreeBSD, I bought a SoundBLASTER 128 PCI card... but that didn't help at all, I get the very same results - sounds muffled at 100% and pretty much ok at 80%. So, my question is, does anybody know a reason for this weirdness? Is it just bad drivers I'll have to cope with, or is it something I can fix? Regards, Bartosz Fabianowski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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