NVIDA now has full hardware mixing support under Linux

Gavrila · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 275

sent mine too

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

i just sent a mail too!

hollywoodb · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 1:08 am Post subject:

how possible or impossible would it be to reverse-engineer the driver based on the windows drivers? obviously a little more complex than forcedeth, but with some intelligent individuals wouldn't it be achievable?

dalek · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:57 am Post subject:

I have a ABIT NF7 with the nforce2 chipset. My sound appears to be fine. Keyword is appears though. Did I do something different or do I just not know it yet?

What should I send them that will get the best response? I plan to build a new rig soon. Still looking into what stuff to buy.

Later

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piggie · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:52 am Post subject:

Try playing xmms with Quake3 running in the background.

Or try running arts and something else at the same time (unless you have s/w mixing configured).

dalek · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:39 am Post subject:

Somebody PM'd me with the reason. I do use arts. If I turn it off I get nothing at all.

Anybody recommend a GOOD soundcard?

Later

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krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

Without arts you can still get sound. (you just have to tell the program your using not to use arts but to directly access the audio device) However, you can't play two sounds at once w/o arts.

I usually check the Mandrake Hardware database for certified hardware. The ALSA site and LAD (linux audio development) site have lists of 100% compatible sound cards as well.
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dalek · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:40 am Post subject:

I read in a previous post that Soundblaster was OK. SO.

Holly crap, newegg and pricewatch don't list soundblaster. What up with that?

Gone googling.

I found it. Sound blaster by Creative Labs. duh <slaps forehead, head hits screen, falls on floor>

:lol:

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Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

Don't support the evil scourge that is Creative

If you have a VIA motherboard you'll be lucky if you have no problems with the card. They hog up the PCI bus and use all of the bandwidth. Also, they use lower quality AC`97 mixers by default, lowering the sound quality.

My suggestion is a Hercules Fortissimo III or a Digifire 7.1.

dalek · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:02 am Post subject:

WOW, big WOW

Bit pricey, may be worth it though.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=29-116-113&depa=0

Still bit pricey though. On my to do list though.

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runt · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

LostSon · Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 514 Location: Wisconsin

I sent one 2 good idea let em know we are out here :lol:

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

brkdncr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 92

I emailed them.

foulsoul · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

this expains my useless sound... :evil:

mailed 'em !!

robust · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 53

Has Nvidia replied to your emails ?
One would think that they would at least comment on if or why they are not adressing the issue.

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

No reply except for the canned email responses. I have emailed a linux developer on the nvidia forums as well, with no reply as of yet.
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DOG-mike · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

Well this pisses me off. Ive been searching high and low as to why I can only play 1 sound stream at a time and now I find out that its IMPOSSIBLE. ESD allows me to play mutliple streams ofcourse, but esd/arts both seem to kinda suck. Plus I cant seem to find an esd plugin for xmms...

I dont want to install my lame sblive 5.1 after using soundstream in winxp. I dont even consider that an option. I'd go back to winxp before resorting to using that piece of shit card.

I started hating nvidia when they released geforcefx's and crap 50 series drivers, but now I officially hate them. Thanks for making an awesome chipset that has 0 sound driver support.

Ohwell back to trying to get everything to work under esd...and when that fails...back to windows. Thanks nvidia!

taskara · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:25 am Post subject:

this is exactly what sblive! was like when it first came out.

creative refused to release any information on it, and so linux support was shite

but now look.. it's probably the best supported sound card under linux.

that could be nvidia.. if they listen
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DOG-mike · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

btw people I've decovered a very nice workaround (from these forums no less)

You dont have to use arts/esd if you use the alsa dmix plugin. Basically any application that has alsa support can be run thru dmix. I have esd off and I was running xmms and 10 mplayers at the same time testing it. Got up to 30% cpu usage but they were all crisp and stutter free.

Heres the thread that helped me:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122076

I used Niek's pcm.mixer for /etc/asound.conf

Now if I can figure out how to get teamspeak using dmix and wine, I'll have no reason to ever boot to windows and I can sit back and wait for nvidia to write some god damn soundstorm drivers (not that I'd really need them...).

edit: Just so you guys know, I'm using 2.6.1 kernel with alsa built in and compiled everything with alsa use flags.

maccorin · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 8

i sent one to nvidia now....

khazad-dum · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:

sent from Italy!!

Abit AN7

piggie · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

DOG-mike · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

maccorin · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 8

i sent one a few days ago, still no reply at all though (not even the canned response several have been seeming to get)