Audio driver problems with ubuntu

[ciproxr]

When i installed ubuntu the sound automaticly worked but the quality wasent that great, seemed to work at reduced performance, its hard to describe but i could sometimes hear hissing noises and some songs it almost sounds like their lower quality but in windows they play great.

I know my onboard audio is supported and realtek has drivers that it updates pretty often, the ac97 drivers. I downloaded them and tried to install them and i think i did , but i have no idea how to check which drivers im using.

Im very close to sticking with ubuntu this time cause i fell inlove with beryl and everything with the exception of some minor probs works great.

can someone help me ?

 

[bersl2]

Open up a console and give us the output of the following commands:
/sbin/lspci
/sbin/lsmod
dmesg

 

[ciproxr]

Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 3072 1
ntfs 107764 1
snd_rtctimer 4384 0
binfmt_misc 12680 1
fglrx 540004 42
powernow_k8 16064 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9228 1
cpufreq_stats 7360 0
freq_table 5792 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_conservative 8200 0
cpufreq_userspace 5408 0
sony_acpi 6284 0
dev_acpi 12292 0
pcc_acpi 13184 0
tc1100_wmi 8068 0
sbs 15652 0
i2c_ec 5888 1 sbs
video 16388 0
dock 10268 0
battery 10756 0
ac 6020 0
button 8720 0
asus_acpi 17308 0
backlight 7040 1 asus_acpi
container 5248 0
ipv6 268704 10
sbp2 23812 0
lp 12452 0
snd_atiixp 20620 1
snd_ac97_codec 98336 1 snd_atiixp
ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44544 0
snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 79876 3 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25472 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
parport_pc 36388 1
parport 36936 2 lp,parport_pc
xpad 9988 0
snd_seq 52592 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 23684 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9100 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcspkr 4224 0
i2c_piix4 9740 0
i2c_core 22784 2 i2c_ec,i2c_piix4
ati_agp 10124 0
serio_raw 7940 0
psmouse 38920 0
k8temp 6656 0
snd 54020 12 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8672 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
agpgart 35400 2 fglrx,ati_agp
shpchp 34324 0
pci_hotplug 32576 1 shpchp
af_packet 23816 2
joydev 10816 0
evdev 11008 3
tsdev 8768 0
ext3 133128 1
jbd 59816 1 ext3
mbcache 9604 1 ext3
8139cp 25088 0
ide_cd 32672 0
cdrom 37664 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 17024 5
usbhid 26592 0
hid 27392 1 usbhid
atiixp 7440 0 [permanent]
generic 5124 0 [permanent]
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 299448 2 sbp2,ohci1394
8139too 27648 0
mii 6528 2 8139cp,8139too
floppy 59524 0
ehci_hcd 34188 0
ata_generic 9092 0
ohci_hcd 22532 0
usbcore 134280 5 xpad,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
sata_sil 12808 0
libata 125720 2 ata_generic,sata_sil
scsi_mod 142348 2 sbp2,libata
thermal 14856 0
processor 31048 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42656 0
tileblit 3584 1 fbcon
font 9216 1 fbcon
bitblit 6912 1 fbcon
softcursor 3200 1 bitblit
vesafb 9220 0
capability 5896 0
commoncap 8192 1 capability

 

[ciproxr]

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-15-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-15.27-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009f800 end: 000000000009f800 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009f800 size: 0000000000000800 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000003fdf0000 end: 000000003fef0000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fef0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000003fef3000 type: 4
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fef3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000003ff00000 type: 3
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000e0000000 size: 0000000010000000 end: 00000000f0000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 126MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f40f0
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261872) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 261872
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 261872
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 261872
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 253 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 32243 pages, LIFO batch:7
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 RS480 ) @ 0x000f7f60
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef3040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v002 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef30c0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x00000001 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fef69c0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SRAT (v001 AMD HAMMER 0x00000001 AMD 0x00000001) @ 0x3fef6b00
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef6c00
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef6900
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[ 0.000000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:15 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3ff00000:a0100000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 1990.008 MHz processor.
[ 23.154186] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 259827
[ 23.154189] Kernel command line: root=UUID=f603ac57-bf3b-42db-928a-3b1631f8ad51 ro quiet splash
[ 23.154313] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 23.154315] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 23.154318] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 23.154320] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 23.154326] Initializing CPU#0
[ 23.154380] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 23.155678] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 23.155965] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 23.156297] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 23.173242] Memory: 1027308k/1047488k available (1992k kernel code, 19452k reserved, 893k data, 328k init, 129984k highmem)
[ 23.173252] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 23.173253] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 23.173254] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 23.173255] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 23.173257] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
[ 23.173258] .init : 0xc03d7000 - 0xc0429000 ( 328 kB)
[ 23.173259] .data : 0xc02f2264 - 0xc03d16d4 ( 893 kB)
[ 23.173260] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2264 (1992 kB)
[ 23.173263] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 23.250277] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3983.62 BogoMIPS (lpj=7967249)
[ 23.250310] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 23.250315] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 23.250328] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 23.250432] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[ 23.250440] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[ 23.250442] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[ 23.250444] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000000 00000000 00000001
[ 23.250453] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 23.250456] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 23.250464] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 23.266355] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 23.266496] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 23.266654] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 23.545193] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[ 23.553769] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... file /DSDT.aml not found, using machine DSDT.
[ 23.561160] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping 00
[ 23.561178] Total of 1 processors activated (3983.62 BogoMIPS).
[ 23.561342] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 23.561531] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 23.601212] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[ 23.601260] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
[ 23.601262] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
[ 23.745740] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 23.745907] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 23.745987] Time: 19:33:31 Date: 04/06/107
[ 23.746006] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 23.746067] EISA bus registered
[ 23.746070] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 23.778561] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfa3a0, last bus=2
[ 23.778563] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 23.778565] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 23.791362] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 23.791364] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 23.791779] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 23.791782] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 23.791830] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
[ 23.792808] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 23.793159] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
[ 23.793194] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 23.808162] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 23.808325] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 23.808487] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 23.808648] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 23.808809] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11)
[ 23.808972] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[ 23.809133] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11), disabled.
[ 23.809294] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[ 23.809545] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
[ 23.811267] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 23.811274] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 23.813749] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 23.813753] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 23.813785] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 23.813788] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 23.813795] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0
[ 23.867702] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 23.867703] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 23.868119] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
[ 23.868121] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
[ 23.868124] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
[ 23.868126] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
[ 23.868129] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
[ 23.868131] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
[ 23.868136] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
[ 23.868138] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
[ 23.868325] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
[ 23.868327] IO window: e000-efff
[ 23.868331] MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff
[ 23.868334] PREFETCH window: d8000000-dfffffff
[ 23.868337] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[ 23.868340] IO window: d000-dfff
[ 23.868347] MEM window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
[ 23.868352] PREFETCH window: fde00000-fdefffff
[ 23.868366] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[ 23.868394] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 23.897590] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 23.897710] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 23.898343] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 23.898638] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 23.898640] TCP reno registered
[ 23.909623] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 24.458158] Freeing initrd memory: 6771k freed
[ 24.458457] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 24.458466] audit(1178480011.348:1): initialized
[ 24.458512] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[ 24.458566] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 24.458580] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 24.458617] io scheduler noop registered
[ 24.458619] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 24.458621] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 24.458630] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 24.512945] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[ 24.512968] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 24.512970] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0cie00]
[ 24.513067] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 24.867303] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 24.884327] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 24.884358] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 24.884524] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 24.885008] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 24.885150] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 24.885516] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 24.885665] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 24.885688] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 24.885691] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 24.885927] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303S2K,PNP0f13S2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 24.889143] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 24.889147] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 24.889229] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 24.889251] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[ 24.889270] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 24.919311] TCP cubic registered
[ 24.919318] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 24.919335] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 24.919379] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S5)
[ 24.919417] Magic number: 7:488:596
[ 24.919464] hash matches device ptyd0
[ 24.919692] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 24.920347] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 24.939237] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 26.133517] Capability LSM initialized
[ 26.169778] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707]
[ 26.610046] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 26.613814] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 26.614828] sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 2.2
[ 26.614852] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 26.614900] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf8826080 ctl 0xf882608a bmdma 0xf8826000 irq 16
[ 26.614924] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf88260c0 ctl 0xf88260ca bmdma 0xf8826008 irq 16
[ 26.614937] scsi0 : sata_sil
[ 26.637973] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 26.637990] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 26.638007] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 26.678947] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 26.782564] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 26.811491] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[ 26.822038] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[ 26.856506] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 26.933983] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 26.934002] scsi1 : sata_sil
[ 27.249612] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 27.249871] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 27.249913] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf88c2080 ctl 0xf88c208a bmdma 0xf88c2000 irq 17
[ 27.249933] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf88c20c0 ctl 0xf88c20ca bmdma 0xf88c2008 irq 17
[ 27.249947] scsi2 : sata_sil
[ 27.565241] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 27.565256] scsi3 : sata_sil
[ 27.880870] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 27.881831] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 27.881842] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 27.882039] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 27.882058] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 18, io mem 0xfe02d000
[ 27.945605] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 27.945712] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 27.945724] hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 28.053502] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 28.053516] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
[ 28.053611] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 28.053631] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 18, io mem 0xfe02c000
[ 28.117382] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 28.117497] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 28.117510] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 28.230650] ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
[ 28.230669] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 28.230680] ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
[ 28.230682] ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 28.230690] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf300-0xf307, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
[ 28.230704] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf308-0xf30f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
[ 28.230713] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 28.520542] hda: WDC WD800BB-23JHA1, ATA DISK drive
[ 28.532100] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 28.755887] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 28.768308] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 28.783962] input: Logitech Logitech Dual Action as /class/input/input2
[ 28.783967] input: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Logitech Logitech Dual Action] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1
[ 28.783978] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 28.783981] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 28.804209] hdb: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
[ 28.864351] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 28.879597] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 29.619277] hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520AW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 30.294257] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 30.296669] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 30.296681] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
[ 30.296784] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 30.296832] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 18, io mem 0xfe02b000
[ 30.296844] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 30.296902] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 30.298761] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 30.298782] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 30.298790] hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 30.308036] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[ 30.317939] hda: 156312576 sectors (80032 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[ 30.318049] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 30.318076] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
[ 30.353219] hdb: max request size: 512KiB
[ 30.353548] hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
[ 30.353702] hdb: cache flushes supported
[ 30.353723] hdb: hdb1
[ 30.372704] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 30.372711] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 30.406068] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 30.406704] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8848000, 00:11:09:fc:c4:1b, IRQ 20
[ 30.406707] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[ 30.408053] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[ 30.408133] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 30.461174] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[fdcfe000-fdcfe7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
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[ 30.838142] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 30.847165] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 30.858545] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[ 30.858549] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
[ 31.017175] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 31.224908] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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[ 31.244873] input: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Logitech Logitech Dual Action] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1
[ 31.744453] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000949b40]
[ 32.087720] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
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[ 32.088238] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 40.728346] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
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[ 42.312058] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 42.338739] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 42.592998] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 42.945393] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
[ 43.010074] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input4
[ 43.057967] logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 89
[ 43.088613] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[ 43.088617] drivers/usb/input/xpad.c: driver for Xbox controllers v0.1.6
[ 43.116046] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 43.116090] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP]
[ 43.284182] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 43.534148] input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input5
[ 43.719756] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 43.764224] Adding 481908k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/95814e07-041c-4688-b7e3-f345526087ba. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:481908k
[ 43.845201] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
[ 44.008487] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 44.008560] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 44.322212] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[ 44.385077] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input6
[ 44.388614] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 44.420944] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input7
[ 44.424450] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 44.469707] Using specific hotkey driver
[ 44.508605] No dock devices found.
[ 44.576251] pcc_acpi: loading...
[ 44.785809] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ processors (version 2.00.00)
[ 44.785838] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x6
[ 44.785841] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x8
[ 44.785843] powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12
[ 49.338697] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 49.340928] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 49.345400] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 928 MBytes.
[ 49.345414] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.34.8 [Feb 20 2007] on minor 0
[ 49.437370] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 50.606291] [fglrx] total GART = 130023424
[ 50.606297] [fglrx] free GART = 114032640
[ 50.606299] [fglrx] max single GART = 114032640
[ 50.606302] [fglrx] total LFB = 134086656
[ 50.606304] [fglrx] free LFB = 116256768
[ 50.606305] [fglrx] max single LFB = 116256768
[ 50.606307] [fglrx] total Inv = 0
[ 50.606309] [fglrx] free Inv = 0
[ 50.606310] [fglrx] max single Inv = 0
[ 50.606312] [fglrx] total TIM = 0
[ 28.184000] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
[ 38.420000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 145.612000] NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[ 145.616000] NTFS-fs warning (device hdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
[ 145.684000] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[ 639.364000] APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)

 

[ciproxr]

the first command didnt work

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: ciproxr
the first command didnt work

It's probably in /usr/sbin or /usr/bin.

 

[drag]

http://alsa.opensrc.org/Realtek_ALC861

I found this:

Try muting the line-in on the sound card.

> alsamixer

Then hit tab to change device types (playback vs input vs all) hit 'm' to mute a device. Or at least turn it down to 0 if you don't have a mute option.

Originally posted by: ciproxr
When i installed ubuntu the sound automaticly worked but the quality wasent that great, seemed to work at reduced performance, its hard to describe but i could sometimes hear hissing noises and some songs it almost sounds like their lower quality but in windows they play great.

These devices require what is known as 'software mixing' in order to function correctly.. that is to have more then one sound at a time. The hardware in most types of sound cards nowadays are pretty simple and can only handle one sound input at a time coming from the OS.

Traditionally in Linux these things were troublesome because by default there was no sound mixing at all and when one application was making a sound no other application could access the sound card. With software mixing this is now possible, but with applications that use a old fasion way of accessing the sound system (called OSS, were the modern one is ALSA) (like Quake3-style games still use OSS) this can still be troublesome.

In Windows this is handled very automaticly since Win9x days, so this wasn't a issue. At the beginning of last year or so distributions began shipping with configurations that enabled software mixing by default.

So when you have sound quality issues nowadays a lot of the time it can be traced back to this software mixing not properly being setup by default.

Now one of the special things about ALSA is that users are able to make a ~/.asoundrc (the ~/ is shorthand for your home directory. The . at the beginning of the name makes it 'hidden') file that can control different sound system behaviors. You can do special things like setup virtual sound cards, or route some sound to one speaker and another application to a different set of speakers and fancy stuff like that.

Well the software mixing is done using a alsa plugin called 'dmix'. It's behavior can be controlled by the ~/.asoundrc file.

So what you can try is to set your own software mixer settings and see if that improves the sound. Sometimes it makes a big difference and some times it doesn't. Sometimes it can actually have a big impact on system performance for things like DVD playback and such.


So in order to find good settings to try out you can do the following.



First off we need a program which we can easily bypass the software mixing and play directly to the sound card. I like Mplayer and it's aviable through the Ubuntu universe repositories. Also you can use alsaplayer, but I think mplayer sounds better.

Then you'll need a decent quality mp3 or flac or ogg file or something like that. Something that sounds nice and is stereo, something that is a ripped from a cdrom.

So the first thing is to open up two terminals.

In the first terminal you run mplayer playing that sound. Just to see what it sounds like.
> mplayer -ao alsaevice=hw=0 *.mp3

that should bypass software mixing. It may complain that the device is in use and refuse to play. If that is true then close out all your sound applications. If you have something that is still using the sound card, but you can't find it then try this command:
> sudo kill $(lsof -t /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*)

But becarefull with that command. It will close out applications without saving information or being that nice about it. If any Gnome applets or whatnot starts complaning and asking you weither or not they should be restarted, just ignore the dialog screen for now and restart them when your finished.


Once you get mplayer playing directly to the sound card then in the second terminal open up alsamixer
> alsamixer


Alsamixer is a special mixing application that reflects the actual mixing controls for your sound card. Gnome mixers, for example, have a sort of abstracted view, but alsamixer shows everything. The important mixing controls are things like 'Front', 'PCM', 'Mixer', 'Main' and such things. Most of the mixing controls will have little to no effect, but other ones will affect playback. So you want the sound mixers to be about 80% or so torwards maximum. To high and they will distort and cause sound qualities sometimes, so you want to have them kinda evened out. It may take some playing around.

At this point if it still sounds crappy then it's definately driver issues and it's not worth going any further.

If it sounds good at this point then you can configure dmix to make all sound applications have their sound mixed to match that good sounding one.


To do that you check out files in /proc/asound directory while the application is playing. It will have information about settings on the sound cards and what sound formats are currently playing.

So while mplayer is playing run this command:
> cat $(find /proc/asound | grep hw)

This is what I get with my onboard sound card:

$ cat $(find /proc/asound/|grep hw )
closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
access: RW_INTERLEAVED
format: S16_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 44100 (44100/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 16384
tick_time: 4000

So with that information you make your ~/.asoundrc file.

Mine would look like:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixed"
}

pcm.dmixed {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 16384
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}


ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixed"
}

Just open up the file using gedit and copy and paste that into there and put in your own matching values.
> gedit ~/.asoundrc



Now go and play your normal applications and see if they sound nice. Make sure that they are configured to use 'alsa'.

For old OSS applications that do not have alsa support you can sometimes run them using the aoss application. It's aviable witht he alsa-oss package. You go like this:
> aoss realplayer


That's solved sound issues for me a couple times. It even solved a pretty serious dvd performance issue with my laptop.

If you have problems with that configuration then just delete the file or copy it to a different name.



This is one of those things that is easy to do, but tricky to do the first couple times. You may still have lingering issues, but this should get most of the sound quality issues if it works.

I know my onboard audio is supported and realtek has drivers that it updates pretty often, the ac97 drivers. I downloaded them and tried to install them and i think i did , but i have no idea how to check which drivers im using.

That's usually not recommended route. Sometimes it works, but generally the vendors drivers are worse then the Linux kernel-supplied drivers. It's a bit opposite for Linux then it is Windows. Sometimes it's nessicary though.

But were did you get them from?

They may be OSS drivers and then you'll need to configure your system to disable the alsa drivers and use OSS instead. Sometimes some people just need to use OSS to get things working correctly although in most respects Alsa is superior... which is why OSS is still around.

Im very close to sticking with ubuntu this time cause i fell inlove with beryl and everything with the exception of some minor probs works great.

can someone help me ?

I hope you get it going well also.


You can find more information about this stuff at
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Main_Page if you'd like.

Sometimes they have decent tips...
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Realtek_ALC861
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Realtek_ALC950

 

[ciproxr]

hey man just wanted to say thanks for taking the time, i got more support here than on the ubuntu forums. i think if i put pcm at 80% it sounds a little better. line in was already disabled.

I may in the end buy a new soundcard that linux has good support for, like someone said on another forum , linux costs money sometimes lol.

the sound is "acceptable" but in windows it honestly blows it away. The thing is i went back to windows to check the quality and compare and i missed ubuntu lol so close to keeping it this time. Beryl really is awesome , and the fact that i can have my bookmarks with foxmarts and i already used gaim on windows only now its faster.

will see how things go.

i will try to tweak as much as i can.

 

[drag]

Ya. Try the thing I said with setting up dmix with better settings.

What that is doing is conditioning the uncompressed sound format before it's being sent to the sound card. If you can make it sound good by playing a mp3 or whatever directly to the hardware then you can make everything sound like that by remixing it before the sound card gets it.


I'll give you the short version if you don't want to read all that.

pre-1. check to make sure that mixer settings aren't at 100% using alsamixer
pre-2. check to make sure that input lines and such are muted.

1. First close out all sound applications.

2. Run:
sudo kill $(lsof -t /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*)
to make sure that all sound programs are dead.

3. Install mplayer. Find a good quality mp3 or ogg or flac or whatever file that is good quality and originated from a CDROM. This is because sound cards are designed to sound best with the pcm/wav format you get from cdroms. (Stereo, 16bit, 44.1khz)
Use this command:
mplayer -ao alsaevice=hw=0 filename.mp3


If it still sounds bad then stop here. If it sounds decent then continue.


4. run this command (while mplayer is still running):
cat $(find /proc/asound|grep hw)

Sample output is this:

closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
access: RW_INTERLEAVED
format: S16_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 44100 (44100/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 16384
tick_time: 4000

5. create a ~/.asoundrc file.
gedit ~/.asoundrc


A sample file is this:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixed"
}

pcm.dmixed {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 16384
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}


ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixed"
}

Replace the period_size and other settings with what you get from the proc file.

See if that helps. If it makes things worse then just delete the file. Applications that are started after creating that file and are configured to use alsa (most are by default) then no changes will be needed for those to take advantage of the new configuration. It will be done automaticly.

 

[ciproxr]

thanks again, i really appreciate everything

 

[drag]

mplayer -ao alsaevice=hw=0 filename.mp3


Sorry. Those silly emoticons.

 

[KIRBYEE]

Well if you're lazy you could just get a sound card that does hardware mixing like I did.
I bought a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 from my friend for 5 euros and I'm glad I did.
Everything just works now, no need to set up asound.rcs or anything.
I'm sure there are people on this forum that might have some Lives sitting on their shelves.

OT: I really hope configuring sound on Linux would be easier. The current situation scares off newbies.

 

[ciproxr]

I have a sound blaster live, just not installed , u think the sound quality will be better ?

 

[KIRBYEE]

Originally posted by: ciproxr
I have a sound blaster live, just not installed , u think the sound quality will be better ?

Probably it will be. Install the Live! and remember to disable the on-board sound from the BIOS. Lives and early Audigys are probably one of the best supported sound cards on Linux and they do hardware mixing.

 

[ciproxr]

installed it right now, i have to do some further testing, but audio seems much better, i dont want to get my hopes up yet but it seems honestly better.

i will give you guys an update.

weird thing is it too me a while to find a windows driver for it cause its an older card, but ubuntu it worked right away without me having to do anything.

from what i read it should be the same quality as the AC97 only it dosent use the cpu.