[linux-audio-user] newbie to linux sound

[Glenn McCord]

I've done this:
1. Run alsamixer then
2. turned down the PCM volume to about 80% in order to get rid of the 
crackles
3. turned alsamixer's master volume up.

Hope it works

Glenn

Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm new to linux sound (but not to sound or linux)
>So I'm starting off on a journey and need some help.
>
>I have a dman pci card with cs46xx chipset.
>
>I'm using Redhat 9, when my machine booted it detected the card and
>configured it.
>However, all is not right.
>there are lots of crackles and pops when the volume is up.
>
>It can play wavs but it seems the volume needs to be quite high.
>
>I have downloaded the alsa tarballs (driver, lib, utils)
>
>
>what should be my first step in trouble shooting this setup
>
>thanks,
>kind regards,
>Luke
>  
>