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Veronika
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...pfff, it´s hard to get through the information here. But thank you anyway for enlightening me on some issues, it´s slowly becoming a bit clearer.
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vblanton
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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This is the email I got in response to my inquiry:
Someone should un-stick this if it is true. Or atleast put [solve] in the title. |
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chunderbunny
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| It is true, the nvsound drivers have been usable for a few versions now and the last version seems to have ironed out most of the bugs. All we need now is an ALSA driver, but right now we have a driver that works. |
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ppurka
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Do the nvsound drivers support full duplex sound? I think that might be a reason why skype doesn't work with these drivers  |
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chunderbunny
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| What do you mean by full duplex? The nvsound drivers enable hardware mixing so they can output as many simultaneous sounds as you want (well, up to 64 I think.) |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| chunderbunny wrote: | | What do you mean by full duplex? The nvsound drivers enable hardware mixing so they can output as many simultaneous sounds as you want (well, up to 64 I think.) |
By mentioning "full duplex", I want to emphasize if nvsound driver can record and playback sound at the same time, which is what is required by skype to function properly. I hope I am not creating new confusion  |
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chunderbunny
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| In that case I don't know, I don't have any audio sources to record from to test it out. |
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ollienz
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yeah, i agree.
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ppurka
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| With whom do you agree? I am just curious.. |
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DjMadness
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: Mailed them anyway |
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I dont use AMD, but i do want full support in linux, so i sent them an email.
did the same for ATI, though i use Nvidia |
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terroron
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PrakashP
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Who was the guy who received beta drivers from nvidia? (Please stand up.) I have an issue with Wine and Diablo2 with nvsound. I wonder if Nvidia has a new beta driver ready which fixes this.  |
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irondog
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The media-sound/nforce-audio-1.0.0301 drivers cause skype to crash. Anyone else having success?
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ppurka
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| Quote: | | The media-sound/nforce-audio-1.0.0301 drivers cause skype to crash. Anyone else having success? |
No Skype doesn't work 
Hopefully there is some effort being made from Nvidia's side...
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47563 |
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irondog
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I'll be waiting. Somebody seems to have a fixed driver (in source code). Hopefully it's really fixed when the next version is released.
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disturbed
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I gave up with those Nforce2 audio crap.
I bought myself a nice creative live! card , now everything works , even my centerspeaker , full mixing support , I have sound from my tv capture card.
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reub2000
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| I'm building a PC to use with mythtv, using socket a cpu. I'm considering using an nforce 2. I'm too lazy to read 11 pages to find my aswer, so could someone tell me what works and what doesn't. Does the dolby digital encoding work? |
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ppurka
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| Quote: | | I'm building a PC to use with mythtv, using socket a cpu. I'm considering using an nforce 2. I'm too lazy to read 11 pages to find my aswer, so could someone tell me what works and what doesn't. Does the dolby digital encoding work? |
Don't know about SPDIF output, but I had been trying out the analog 5.1 outputs, and they seem to work fine with the alsa drivers ( 1.0.8 ). |
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| reub2000 wrote: | | I'm building a PC to use with mythtv, using socket a cpu. I'm considering using an nforce 2. I'm too lazy to read 11 pages to find my aswer, so could someone tell me what works and what doesn't. Does the dolby digital encoding work? |
For me, I had to use the nvsound driver from nVidia along with OSS in order to get Dolby Digital encoding. However, it works well with the SPDIF and such and sounds amazing. It is nforce-audio in portage, but make sure to get the latest ~x86 version because the "stable" one in portage has problems with many applications. Cheers. |
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ppurka
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| Quote: | | For me, I had to use the nvsound driver from nVidia along with OSS in order to get Dolby Digital encoding. However, it works well with the SPDIF and such and sounds amazing. It is nforce-audio in portage, but make sure to get the latest ~x86 version because the "stable" one in portage has problems with many applications. Cheers. |
Did you compile OSS into the kernel, for Nvidia binary drivers?? I found that the drivers work fine, even if you have enabled only the sound system in the kernel (ie, donot select OSS or ALSA in kernel, only enable sound).
However, I tried out 5.1 with the nvidia drivers (taken from Nvidia site) and they seem to switch my surround and center/LFE signals This might be an isolated case though. The stereo sound output is really good though. |
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| ppurka wrote: | | However, I tried out 5.1 with the nvidia drivers (taken from Nvidia site) and they seem to switch my surround and center/LFE signals This might be an isolated case though. The stereo sound output is really good though. |
Open nvmixer and check under "Advance Options" to see if Center and LFE are selected to be switched. If they are, then that is the problem. If not, click it and see if it fixes it. |
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I think we should email nVidia about making an ALSA driver now. I recently send this to them, although I should have added that they would not even need to make a mixer program if they switched to ALSA.
| Meself wrote: | I have recently began using my onboard nVidia SoundStorm and I used the open source ALSA drivers for a bit, but I switched to the official ones for hardware mixing support and Dolby Digital support in order to increase the performance of my games. However, the driver uses OSS which is outdated in terms of Linux sound technologies and does not allow for as much performance in many of today's top commercial Linux games.
Many people support Creative's sound technologies in Linux because Creative works well with open source developers in order to achieve maximum performance of their audio cards with ALSA. Games such as Doom3 natively support ALSA and Unreal Tournament 2004 has better performance with ALSA than it does with OSS.
This is due to the way in which the OSS API works, in that it does not allow applications to take full advantage of the hardware mixing that they need which therefore can cause sound lag and lower performance in games.
For what it is worth, there are people on the Gentoo forums who also wish for ALSA support who originally asked for hardware mixing. -> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-101125-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
Thank you for your time, and I hope that you understand this situation.
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Please send your own version mentioning the same points, or more, and add in the fact they would not have to make a separate mixing program. Cheers. |
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| Pwnz3r wrote: | | I think we should email nVidia about making an ALSA driver now. I recently send this to them, although I should have added that they would not even need to make a mixer program if they switched to ALSA. |
They already wrote in the Release Notes for the latest drivers http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0301/ReleaseNotes.html
| Quote: | # Q: Linux distributions are moving towards ALSA as the standard sound driver architecture, but nvsound is an OSS driver. Why don't you provide an ALSA driver?
A: Our priority in shipping the nvsound driver was to provide support for nForce hardware features that were missing in the earlier nvaudio driver. NVIDIA plans to provide an nForce ALSA driver in future as our resources allow. |
Maybe as was mentioned this thread should be un-stickyfied now.
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Oh my bad. Well, that is good news.  |
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