[Scarborough] Re: [SLUG] SUSE installation sound problems

[Martin Webb]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Before I answer your questions, I just noticed that the DVD drive is
>> connected to the sound card (I did that, it was connected to the
>> motherboard) by an analogue cable. So I'm asking the DVD drive to do
>> the DAC work, whereas I'd say I'd be better off asking the soundcard
>> to do that, so I'm going to look into that.
>>     
>
> I removed the DVD->sound card analogue cable. No change. It probably
> wasn't using it anyway. So the sound is being taken from the DVD
> through the motherboard to the soundcard where it's being converted to
> analogue and pushed out through the speakers.
>
> I just tried headphones in the green socket and it sounds the same, so
> it's not the speakers.
>
> So, it's not the speakers, it's not the DVD drive itself but it is to
> do with the DVD drive because MP3s play fine.
>
> J
I'm still  betting on the driver, under that version of Suse, for that 
brand of SBLive24bit, not doing the job properly.
I'm thinking that way because I had exactly the same symptoms with 
exactly the same sound card.  When I a) installed SBLive! (not 24bit) 
and b) manually installed the right driver, I got a very good result.
Martin