[PlanetCCRMA] Pulse and ice 1712

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 16:31 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 14:27 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:55 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:51 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:10 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:18:06PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > No sound output.  If I run alsamicer I just get the one pulseaudio
> > > > > > fader.  Can anyone tell me how to completely remove pulse from the
> > > > > > equation?  Also, what would be the best way to try to debug this?  I've
> > > > > > spent a couple of weeks on this already.  I'd really like to get it
> > > > > > resolved.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Have you tried, as root, removing the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	yum -remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> > > > > 
> > > > > or
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	rpm -e alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> > > > 
> > > >     That helped a bit.  Now I don't have the pulse stuff going on but
> > > > the sound is still seriously distorted unless I set to 96K.  Any ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > >     Another possible clue.  When watching envy24control, all of the
> > > noise is coming in on the odd channels 1, 3, 5, and 7.
> > 
> > It regretfully sounds like a kernel-level alsa driver issue...
> > -- Fernando
> > 
> 
>     That's what I was thinking but I have friends on LAU and LAD who are
> running ice1712 cards with no problems on F10.  They're M-Audio cards
> though and I don't know how many channels they're running.

Me too, but M-Audio as well. 

There must be something in your particular hardware that is not
contemplated in the current drivers... sorry to not have better news. 

-- Fernando