Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[sanjuro]

Hi,
i am trying Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 on my old laptop, but i have really low sound quality in vlc player comparing to sound quality in windows vlc. It sounds like there is some echo. I think there is some kind of realtek audio chip. Any general suggestions? thx.

[darkcity]

Hi sanjuro

Welcome to the kennels

Its possible you sound isn't configured or you need a different driver. Not heard of people experiencing echo.

the command

alsamixer

will set the sound levels and chose which card.

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Have you tried you the ALSA sound wizard ( in setup menu )? Make a backup (while its not in use) of your save file first, or try without using savefile.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowToAvoidLoadingSaveFile


any luck?

[sanjuro]

thanks for reply. i have tried it but nothing chnaged. There is a little echo, but the sound is so tinny. And sound is quieter than in win. This is only problem i need to solve because i really like puppy, really fast on old lenovo. Alsamixer says i have chip Realtek 861. Should i try official driver for linux os from their official sites or there is some community driver?

[darkcity]

looking at the latest driver from Realtek looks like ALC861 is already included in ALSA under HD Audio codec.

what are the contains of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

and what is the output from aplay -l ?

(edit- are you using version 5 of 5.28 ? http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855
more help at-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyOnLaptops +
http://www.linlap.com/)

[sanjuro]

contents of alsa-base.conf ->
http://pastebin.com/i42TArSw

result of aplay -l is

[postfs1]

http://www.opensound.com/linux.html

[darkcity]

according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/138322
adding either

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

or

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

to

alsa-base.conf may work