ALSA sound issue and sdl sound issue

[Ethan A Burns]

I have two sound issues. The sound for ALSA on quake2 binary sounds like a
high pitched machine gun. I have seen another post on this on Sept 1st
in the archive:
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?5:mss:1720:oogjadbaohnhojiokmhe
It sounds like the exact same problem, I was wondering if there was going
to be a fix soon, or if there is a way to fix this already?


I am also experiencing problems with the sdlquake2 binary, the sounds are all
fine, except for sounds with a lot of bass. For example the sound when moving
up and down on the menu sounds like crap, it is very delayed, very low pitch
and is elongated. Is this a problem with the sdl in quake or would that be a
problem on my part?

By the way:
My install is via gentoo's portage, I am not running kde (or arts),
my kernel is 2.6.12.5 vanilla, and my sound card is an intel using the ac97
drivers.

[Andreas 'GlaDiaC' Schneider]

Post by Ethan A Burns
I have two sound issues. The sound for ALSA on quake2 binary sounds like a
high pitched machine gun. I have seen another post on this on Sept 1st
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?5:mss:1720:oogjadbaohnhojiokmhe
It sounds like the exact same problem, I was wondering if there was going
to be a fix soon, or if there is a way to fix this already?
I am also experiencing problems with the sdlquake2 binary, the sounds are all
fine, except for sounds with a lot of bass. For example the sound when moving
up and down on the menu sounds like crap, it is very delayed, very low pitch
and is elongated. Is this a problem with the sdl in quake or would that be a
problem on my part?

Which output do you use with SDL?

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/#setthatdriver

Do you have a .asoundrc in your home directory with the correct values for
you Soundcard?

-- andreas

Post by Ethan A Burns
My install is via gentoo's portage, I am not running kde (or arts),
my kernel is 2.6.12.5 vanilla, and my sound card is an intel using the ac97
drivers.

[Nelson Marques]

There's a set of tools for ALSA that allow you to use a equalizer and
tune it accordingly to your needs.
That might eventually solve your issue. I'm not sure what's the correct
tool, because I don't use ALSA since I dropped SuSE Linux about 4 or 5
years ago, but I'm pretty sure it's there. If it's a RPM based distro,
you can try to figure out wich binaries it installs, for example: rpm
-ql package | more (should display a listing of the installed files,
check for /bin/*).

Hope it helps,
NM

Post by Ethan A Burns
I have two sound issues. The sound for ALSA on quake2 binary sounds like a
high pitched machine gun. I have seen another post on this on Sept 1st
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?5:mss:1720:oogjadbaohnhojiokmhe
It sounds like the exact same problem, I was wondering if there was going
to be a fix soon, or if there is a way to fix this already?
I am also experiencing problems with the sdlquake2 binary, the sounds are all
fine, except for sounds with a lot of bass. For example the sound when moving
up and down on the menu sounds like crap, it is very delayed, very low pitch
and is elongated. Is this a problem with the sdl in quake or would that be a
problem on my part?
My install is via gentoo's portage, I am not running kde (or arts),
my kernel is 2.6.12.5 vanilla, and my sound card is an intel using the ac97
drivers.