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I'm having very poor sound quality using alsa. The sound is very quiet and when I turn the speakers up there is a constant crackling and high pitched noise even when I'm not playing any sounds. I tried pulseaudio but nothing changed so I went ahead and uninstalled it.
When I try to use alsamixer to adjust the volume levels I get this error:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device or directory
I've checked and my user account is part of the sound group. I also tried reinstalling the kernel as instructed in the wiki.
I'm kind of at my wits end here because I can't even get into alsamixer to fix the problem.
I wasn't sure what type of info is needed to troubleshoot this problem so if you need more info please tell me and I will post it.
edit:Well, I got alsamixer to work after deleting some config files that I had monkeyed around with. The sound quality is still fairly poor though.
Last edited by Uruz2012 (2009-06-07 02:54:41)
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I just switched from ALSA to OSSv4, and I love it. Finally can listen to music movies/music at more than 2.0 You may check it out. I can't help you with the sound quality issue though, it's not that ALSA sounds bad...I just think OSS has higher sound quality.
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I'm having very poor sound quality using alsa. The sound is very quiet and when I turn the speakers up there is a constant crackling and high pitched noise even when I'm not playing any sounds. I tried pulseaudio but nothing changed so I went ahead and uninstalled it.
When I try to use alsamixer to adjust the volume levels I get this error:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device or directory
I've checked and my user account is part of the sound group. I also tried reinstalling the kernel as instructed in the wiki.
I'm kind of at my wits end here because I can't even get into alsamixer to fix the problem.
I wasn't sure what type of info is needed to troubleshoot this problem so if you need more info please tell me and I will post it.
edit:Well, I got alsamixer to work after deleting some config files that I had monkeyed around with. The sound quality is still fairly poor though.
What soundcard?
If emu10k1: Try to reduce the pcm value, helped for me in the past.
and delete /etc/asound.conf, pulseaudio modifies it as far as I know.
Last edited by FallenWizard (2009-06-08 23:01:45)
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I actually fixed it by randomly goofing around with settings in alsamixer without pulse. I'm not even sure what I did
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I had the same problem and fixed it by setting pcm to ~70, thank you FallenWizard. This "fix" is not only for emu10k1 - I have nFroce2 chipset with soundstorm: 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2)
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