From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 5:50:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788DF37B41B for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from chillt.de (dsl-213-023-045-079.arcor-ip.net [213.23.45.79]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA22765 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:50:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C7B9313.1060502@chillt.de> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:19 +0100 From: Bartosz Piotr Fabianowski Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@chillt.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020212 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Poor sound quality on FreeBSD with various sound cards... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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