[LAU] Newbe to audio on linux

[Thomas Kuther]

On Sa, 05.04.08 19:26 Massimo Corinaldesi <m.corinaldesi at mclink.it>
wrote:

> I would play some music records flac coded at 24bit/88kHz.
> 
> The pc audio player (xmms) drives a pci soundcard (Chaintech AV-710)
> whose spdf output drives a Behringer SRC2496 configured as DA just to
> drive a stereo amplifier.
> The sound I hear is good, but the DA locks at 48kHz sample rate,
> insted of 88.2.
> I was not able to "induce" my Mandriva 2008 distribution to output an
> 88kHz digital stream.
> 
> What I'm lookig for is to find a reference to understand the
> complexity (at least for me) of linux audio, and be able to get rid
> of the above problem.
> 
> Hope.
> 

Just a guess...
Your card uses a ICE1712 or 1724 chips I think, for those dmix is
enabled by default on the "default" device. And dmix  has 48kHz
hardcoded internally.

So you might want to output to "hw:0" directly, not "default".


HTH,
Tom
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