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#1 2019-09-22 10:59:52

rahalver
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From: SE Taiwan
Registered: 2017-10-11
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poor sound quality - scratchy

Hi.  I have now successfully installed "devuan ascii _2.0.0_amd64 desktop-live.iso" on an iMac.
Everything works great, except the sound quality is so-so.
The sound worked before on the imac, so I think it is not a hardware problem.
It is a 64 bit system.
3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Model:  A1225
24" - seems to be from 2007.
Question:  What might I do to improve the scratchy sound?  It is present with Youtube (through various browsers) and Xine, and VLC.
Thanks for ideas/guidance.

Last edited by rahalver (2019-09-22 11:15:06)

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#2 2019-09-22 13:53:12

HevyDevy
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

what is your audio?

lspci -knn | grep "Audio"

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#3 2019-09-22 22:32:14

rahalver
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

Hi.  Thanks for the reply.  I am in a different time zone, so I may not respond to your answer right away.  Not sure what your meaning is..
Should I run [lspci -knn | grep "Audio"] in terminal mode (command line) to determine what my audio is?

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#4 2019-09-23 08:13:39

ToxicExMachina
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

Try to remove pulseaudio. At least it worked for me.

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#5 2019-09-23 10:01:45

HevyDevy
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

rahalver wrote:

Hi.  Thanks for the reply.  I am in a different time zone, so I may not respond to your answer right away.  Not sure what your meaning is..
Should I run [lspci -knn | grep "Audio"] in terminal mode (command line) to determine what my audio is?

yes

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#6 2019-09-23 13:22:12

rahalver
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

My audio seems to be 00:08.0 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio [10de:0ac0]
Now what?

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#7 2019-09-23 13:43:12

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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

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#8 2019-09-24 12:30:57

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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy


Brianna Ghey — Rest In Power

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#9 2019-09-24 13:18:18

rahalver
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From: SE Taiwan
Registered: 2017-10-11
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Re: poor sound quality - scratchy

Thanks y'all.
I tried this, and it didn't work:

HevyDevy wrote:

sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

I will now try the wiki archlinux ideas and let you know later.

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