soundcard troubles

[joemamma]

i have mandrake 9.0 on my computer


my motherboard has onboard audio but i have disabled this through the BIOS and have a turtle beach santa cruz...everything works fine when using winxp but using mandrake 9.0 the sound is very poor and high pitched

when i look under mandrake control center and then hardware...it lists both sound card and the drivers used..crystal clear soundfusion audio accelerator and also apollo super ac97/audio

should i remove the ac97 audio? how would i do this and do you think it would solve my problems?

[mdwatts]

Could you please post the results of

lsmod (list loaded modules)

and

grep sound /var/log/messages

Do not bother posting duplicate lines (if any) from the results of the grep command.

Do you know which modules the turtle beach santa cruz uses?

[joemamma]

here are the results from using grep /var/log/message


Feb 23 09:57:21 localhost sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
Feb 23 10:00:08 localhost sound: Saving mixer settings succeeded
Feb 23 10:00:08 localhost alsa: Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2):
Feb 23 10:06:18 localhost sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
Feb 23 12:38:23 localhost draksound[3658]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:38:23 localhost draksound[3658]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:38:23 localhost draksound[3658]: full pci_probe
Feb 23 12:38:52 localhost draksound[3658]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:38:53 localhost draksound[3658]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:38:53 localhost draksound[3658]: renamed file /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf
Feb 23 12:38:53 localhost draksound[3658]: to put in modules scsi_hostadapter
Feb 23 12:47:23 localhost draksound[3680]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:47:23 localhost draksound[3680]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:47:23 localhost draksound[3680]: full pci_probe
Feb 23 12:47:49 localhost draksound[3680]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:47:50 localhost draksound[3680]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:47:50 localhost draksound[3680]: renamed file /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf
Feb 23 12:47:50 localhost draksound[3680]: to put in modules scsi_hostadapter
Feb 23 12:51:44 localhost draksound[3702]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:51:44 localhost draksound[3702]: ### Program is starting ###
Feb 23 12:51:44 localhost draksound[3702]: full pci_probe
Feb 23 12:51:56 localhost draksound[3702]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:51:57 localhost draksound[3702]: default cancel_clicked
Feb 23 12:51:57 localhost draksound[3702]: renamed file /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf
Feb 23 12:51:57 localhost draksound[3702]: to put in modules scsi_hostadapter
Feb 23 13:42:35 localhost sound: Saving mixer settings succeeded
Feb 23 13:42:35 localhost alsa: Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2):
Feb 24 09:09:15 localhost sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
Feb 24 05:49:06 localhost sound: Saving mixer settings succeeded
Feb 24 05:49:06 localhost alsa: Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2):
Feb 24 09:55:43 localhost sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
Feb 24 13:32:36 localhost sound: Saving mixer settings succeeded
Feb 24 13:32:36 localhost alsa: Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2):
Feb 25 12:08:09 localhost sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded

[joemamma]

modules are drivers right? i mentioned those in my first post

crystal clear soundfusion audio accelerator and apollo super ac97/audio


i'm pretty sure that the crystal clear soundfusion accelerator belongs to the turtle beach and apollo super ac97 audio is the onboard sound


just so you know, i do have my speakers plugged into the turtle beach sound card and it works but plugging into the onboard sound doesnt...i am wondering if the onboard is interfering with the pci soundcard

[mdwatts]

Have you tried adjusting the levels in the sound mixer? kmix, aumix etc. ?

Likely the onboard is device 0 and the Turtle Beach is device 1.

Try adding

alias sound-slot-0 off
alias sound-service-0-0 off

to /etc/modules.conf and see if that helps.

Run

depmod -ae

after.

[Kralgi]

He can adjust it by using rexima which is console based, nice tool though.