RH9 C-Media sound probs......

[Texatl]

OK,

I have search hi and lo, tried everything I've read about, but sound is still sketchy. Here's what I mean:

System:
ECS P6SE-ML motherboard
On board C-Media CM8338A sound
Worked in RH 7.3
Now running RH9 9 (kernel 2.4.20-30.9)

PROBLEM:
I can play CD's and get sound just fine. I can play some wav's just fine (that others have emailed me). If I try to rip + encode to mp3 or oog (or rip to wav) - payback is slow and staticy. If I run soundcard detection, test sound is slow and staticy. If I run sndconfig as root, sounds just fine.

So what gives. Sound from cd's but nothing else. Streaming from web slow and staticy too. So here's what I tried:

Disabled PnP OS in bios - no change
Re-installed Driver from C-media site - no change
Thought ALSA would help - no change

I don;t get it. I want to be able to play mp3's, oog's, video, etc... but it all sounds crappy. Only thing that works is listening to cd's. HELP PLEASE! Here's my lsmod if that helps:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
cmpci 36136 0
soundcore 6404 4 [cmpci]
udf 98432 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 48128 0 (unused)
binfmt_misc 7432 1
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
dmfe 17057 1
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
scsi_mod 107544 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35712 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5556 1
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21704 0 (unused)
usbcore 79040 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51924 2 [ext3]

Here's lspci -v:
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8338A (rev 10)
Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 1

Thanks in advance!

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Texatl
If I run soundcard detection, test sound is slow and staticy. If I run sndconfig as root, sounds just fine.


Try adding the user to the 'audio' group.

You may find other suggestions in these JL forum search results for 'static sound' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=894599&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending)

[Texatl]

I could try adding that user to audio group, but I should have been more clear. Even after running sndconfig as root - ANYTIME I run the sound card detection from the menu I get slow and static sound.

I have done this both logging in as root and doing su -l.

TIA,

[mdwatts]

Nothing at all in those JL forum search results that help? You could try searching Google for Linux for the same search criteria.