Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

[Jules Colding]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 09:13 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:00:34 +0200
> Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Tried that. No success. Tried disabling ACPI too, same result (noise and
> > clicks).
> >
>
> Given you have am amd64 based machine, I'm pretty surprised at the noise.
> What else is on the PCI bus?

omc-2 init.d # lspci
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
0000:00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
0000:00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)
0000:00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)
0000:00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:06.0 PCI bridge: IBM PCI-X to PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 02)
0000:03:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
0000:04:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
0000:04:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
0000:04:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:04:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
0000:04:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
0000:06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40GL [Quadro FX 4000] (rev a1)



> As to cards, it doesn't need to be amd64 specific, if alsa supports it, they
> will work.  For decent sound most cards with an envy24 controller and 24-bit
> DACs are pretty good.  You;ll use more cpu to run them, but nothing significant.
> One card is M-Audio's Revolution 7.1.
>
> Another I like to run the Headroom's Bitwise headphone amp.  It hooks up via USB.
> While the DAC is only 16-bit, it does a really grest job.  Plus it's outside the box.
>
> Beware USB attached sound cards, while some work, many require firmware downloads
> to function.

Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and
using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue.

Regards,
  jules



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