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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Sandra Milne <silne at optusnet.com.au> writes:

> 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.

I'm beginning to suspect that either this card doesn't support the
traditional ways of getting sound through to the speakers under Linux,
or my idea of how to do that is no longer correct.

It certainly seems like most sophisticated sound applications are
working as expected.

Could you grab a copy of english.au (it's on all the kernel mirrors)
and try:

	$ cat english.au > /dev/dsp
	$ cat english.au > /dev/audio

and tell me if it sounds right to you?

> Is this the new 6 channel version or the old 4 channel version?

It's the four-channel version, I think.

> Did you add the compile-time options (i think there's one for number
> of speakers, and a couple of other extra doodads).

Yeah.  I spent a while wondering if they were incorrectly set, but
messing around with cmictl disabused me of the notion.

[quoting of my entire message snipped]

jason
-- 
``I may have agreed to something involving a goat.''  -- CJ

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