Mandrake and Santa Cruz

[Hysteria]

Hi all! I am fairly new to linux and am having trouble with the sound in mandrake9. When playin mp3s the sound is just really bad. Especially when to song has any bass at all. The wierd part about it is that on a whim I installed Lycoris and the sound worked perfectly from the start. I would rather use mandrake as it seems more "educational" and I want to learn not be spoon fed so any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

[mdwatts]

Are the correct modules being loaded for your soundcard?

Any sound mixer settings you can try adjusting?

[Hysteria]

I have tried adjusting everything from the arts sound levels to the basic mixer levels to no avail. I am not sure about the module but I think the right one is being loaded. I am currently dling the rc1 release and after installing it will post more but this is really confusing. I am not sure what I am doing wrong....

[Hysteria]

Man this is frustrating!
Here is lsmod readout:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
msdos 5364 0 (autoclean)
isofs 25652 0 (autoclean)
inflate_fs 17860 0 (autoclean) [isofs]
udf 85472 0 (autoclean)
usbkbd 3412 0 (unused)
keybdev 1920 0 (unused)
mousedev 4116 1
hid 18340 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2004 0 (unused)
input 3456 0 [usbkbd keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean)
floppy 49340 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 3680 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 36932 0
snd-mixer-oss 9016 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-cs46xx 56948 1
snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx]
snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-cs46xx]
snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
gameport 1660 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd 24804 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean)
usb-ohci 18216 0 (unused)
usbcore 57984 1 [usbkbd hid usbmouse usb-ohci]
sis900 13388 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 16812 0 (unused)
ieee1394 31500 0 [ohci1394]
ntfs 49152 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2844 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9556 1 (autoclean)
fat 31864 0 (autoclean) [msdos vfat]
supermount 14564 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 28744 0
cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
tuner 6464 1 (autoclean)
tvaudio 12156 0 (autoclean) (unused)
msp3400 15148 1 (autoclean)
bttv 66880 0
i2c-algo-bit 7432 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 15332 0 [tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore 3780 0 [snd bttv]
videodev 5792 3 [bttv]
ide-scsi 8180 0
scsi_mod 90436 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
rtc 6560 0 (autoclean)
ext3 74356 1
jbd 38452 1 [ext3]

Any suggestions???

[mdwatts]

I'm not sure what modules the Santa Cruz uses though it would seem those would be the correct modules since you are indeed getting some sound.

Another member recently (a week ago?) posted about the Santa Cruz Turtle Beach. Is that the same soundcard as you have?

A forum search may find that thread. Also Google for Linux searching for the soundcard model may find additional help/suggestions.

Does Mandrake have anything on configuring soundcards etc.?

[Big Gulp]

I also have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and have run into this issue in the past. The problem seems to be that the manufacturer won't create linux drivers, so Cirrus drivers are used instead. It works, sort of, but you won't get any of the neato-keen effects that you do in Windows, and occassionally you'll run into problems with them (I usually run into them with XMS, not with too much else).

I've never been able to find a work around for it, but I usually do all of my gaming and DivX viewing (sorry, Xine isn't quite up to snuff quality wise) in Windows so it's never been a huge issue for me.

[Hysteria]

What bothers me is that the sound is perfect in the lycoris distrobution but lacking in mandrake. I have done a comparison of the snd levels and various other settings and can't find any reason for the difference. Ah well....everyone needs a little frustration....I guess :p.

[Hysteria]

Well, it sounds better after messing with arts control tool. However, there is virtually no bass in any song unless I kick it up in xmms and then it sounds horrible?!? Is there somewhere else to adjust bass and such or am I just stuck :(. Thanks for all you help so far.

[Big Gulp]

Originally posted by Hysteria
Well, it sounds better after messing with arts control tool. However, there is virtually no bass in any song unless I kick it up in xmms and then it sounds horrible?!? Is there somewhere else to adjust bass and such or am I just stuck :(. Thanks for all you help so far.

I have no idea on the bass issue. I've just spent the whole damned day trying to get my GeForce 4 working under the new Redhat beta, Redhat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2, and even Libranet. No luck on any of them, and I've tried RPMs and source. I've followed the instructions in the README at Nvidia's site, the instructions at Tom's Hardware, and a bunch of other places. Still no dice. Now you see why Linux is only allotted 5 gig out of my 100 gig hard drive. It's a toy as far as I'm concerned. Maybe someday Linux will become feasible, but right now it's just for tinkering when I'm bored.