NVIDIA nForce Audio drivers, FC5.

[Allieonfire]

I've been with FC5 for a couple of weeks now, and I'm happy with it.

Anyway, I've got XMMS and my MP3 plugins so everything's working as far as playing my MP3s goes, but the sound's a bit crappy. Crackly in the lower and higher ends, but fine in the mid-range. I don't dare touch the equaliser, that makes it worse.

When I go to Volume Control and try to change the device, I get three options:
NVidia CK8 (Alsa Mixer)
Winfast TV USB II Deluxe (Alsa Mixer) (TV isn't even installed, can't find any instructions for it?)
Realtek ALD658D (OSS Mixer)

I googled and found that the drivers need to be installed independently. And I just discovered that FC5 has "control Z." Thank goodness.

I'm sure others out there have had to install drivers for NVidia's nForce drivers and could help me in doing the same. I've found bugger-all googling.

I opened up terminal and typed uname -m and came up with just "i686", if this affects anything.

Thanks in advance.

[Seve]

Originally Posted by Allieonfire

I've been with FC5 for a couple of weeks now, and I'm happy with it.

Anyway, I've got XMMS and my MP3 plugins so everything's working as far as playing my MP3s goes, but the sound's a bit crappy. Crackly in the lower and higher ends, but fine in the mid-range. I don't dare touch the equaliser, that makes it worse.

When I go to Volume Control and try to change the device, I get three options:
NVidia CK8 (Alsa Mixer)
Winfast TV USB II Deluxe (Alsa Mixer) (TV isn't even installed, can't find any instructions for it?)
Realtek ALD658D (OSS Mixer)

I googled and found that the drivers need to be installed independently. And I just discovered that FC5 has "control Z." Thank goodness.

I'm sure others out there have had to install drivers for NVidia's nForce drivers and could help me in doing the same. I've found bugger-all googling.

I opened up terminal and typed uname -m and came up with just "i686", if this affects anything.

Thanks in advance.

Hello:
I am pretty sure you do not need the external nvidia sound drivers as they are only for pre 2.6.16 kernels? http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...ighlight=sound
You want to use the NVidia CK8 (Alsa Mixer) as your default and configure it. Just make sure that you have all the latest alsa rpms installed.
This is what I have installed for my NVidia CK804 (Alsa Mixer)

$ rpm -aq | grep alsa
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.11-4.rc2
alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2
alsa-lib-1.0.11-4.rc2
alsa-tools-1.0.10-2.fc5
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.2.rc1.fc5

You may have to play around with alsamixer to ensure that you have all the correct settings, given your hardware /speaker setup etc.
hth
Seve