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Description of problem:
Just updated my mobo to an nForce based one (ASUS A7N266-e).  Kudzu detected the
on board sound as i810 (wrong?) Sound comes out but is badly distorted.  When
sound is quiet, you hear quiet squeals in the background.  When playing sound it
is tinny and distorted with a background hiss that seems to go up and down in
volume along with the sound being played.  NO clicking or skips though...sounds
as if it might not be using all the bits of the codec or badly resampling the
data.  kernel messages are:

Feb 12 19:47:36 alien kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.19, 13:48:53 Jan
17 2002
Feb 12 19:47:36 alien kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0005 -> 0007)
Feb 12 19:47:36 alien kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
Feb 12 19:47:36 alien kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xe000 and
0xe100, IRQ 5
Feb 12 19:47:37 alien kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
Feb 12 19:47:37 alien kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609
(SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Feb 12 19:47:37 alien kernel: i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available.
Feb 12 19:47:37 alien kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total
channels = 2
Feb 12 19:47:37 alien kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608
(SigmaTel STAC9708)
Feb 12 19:47:38 alien modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
Feb 12 19:47:38 alien modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Feb 12 19:47:38 alien modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Feb 12 19:47:38 alien modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Feb 12 19:47:38 alien modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Feb 12 19:47:44 alien kernel: i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog
readyhdc: ATAPI 56X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

I'm told the chip can be used as an AC97 codec with i810 drivers but also has
other more advanced features.

I'm running the latest Athlon kernel from RHN 2.4.9-21

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.1. install RH7.2, custom, everything checked
2. update to latest kernel via RHN
3. Sound quality is bad (tinny with background white noise) may not be obvious
if you just give it a quick listen or have bad speakers.  Sound doesn't skip,
just doesn't sound good.
 
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Actual Results:  Sound quality poor

Expected Results:  Sound quality should be very good, windows users report
exceptionally good quality sound when playing back MP3 or game music so I assume
the problem is linux driver related.

Additional info:

This board/chipset is looking to be very popular as performs very well and is
cheap for what you get.  It should really be supported.