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OSS4 sound distort after kernel update

Updated: at 12:48 AM

I’m a “fanboy” of OSS4 since I switched from Fedora to ArchLinux. OSS4 is a great sound module except for… its mixer program, ossxmix:

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It’s not a GUI, it’s a GSDI or Graphical Sound Developer Interface :). I have no idea what the functionality it provides, so my approach to use this kind of application is try-and-see.

Recently, I’ve upgraded my kernel to 2.6.30.x and the sound on my laptop get distored. I googled for solution many hours without any luck, it’s time to solve this by myself. Fire up ossxmix, try-and-see alot of settings and I found this:

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Hope this may save you some time.