[H-GEN] C-Media Electronics Inc's CM8738 soundcard

[Sandra Milne]

I've never had a problem with one of these cards. I used to have one 
(accidentally nuked it) and Brendan has one. Neither of us has ever 
experienced crackling with it under console, KDE or Gnome. It was just a 
case of modprobing it and up it came.

Is this the new 6 channel version or the old 4 channel version? Did you add 
the compile-time options (i think there's one for number of speakers, and a 
couple of other extra doodads).

Sandra.

At 13:11 1/02/2003 -0500, you wrote:

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>List,
>
>Does anyone have experience getting one of these little beasties to
>work?
>
>$ lspci | grep -i audio
>00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
>$ dmesg | tail
>cmpci: version $Revision: 5.64 $ time 00:11:34 Jan 31 2003
>cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xe800 irq 10
>cmpci: chip version = 033
>
>The module loads fine (well, soundcore.o loads automatically and I
>load cmpci.o by hand) but the sound quality is just *terrible*; static
>and other noise interferes with the sound output.
>
>It's not the speaker---I've tried a pair of headphones which work
>great.  I've tried frobbing the various settings available through the
>cmictl program.  I've double-checked that I've selected the correct
>driver.  I've checked for OSS modules for this card (I can't see there
>are any).  I've tried updating the kernel (I seem to recall it was
>working at some point, but I don't know when).  I've tried browsing
>the changelogs and patches, but it's an awful lot of work and nothing
>is jumping out at me.
>
>The hardware is a pretty plain peecee, running 2.4.20 with the XFS
>patches from SGI's CVS server.
>
>I'm out of options.  Anyone?
>
>Cheers,
>
>jason
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