Planet SoC

Those who follow me on Twitter, or put up with my constant complaining via Google Talk are well aware that I’ve had sound issues with Fedora 9 lately (installed on my slave HDD).

Turns out, these issues are fixable, if hard to track down.

What issues per se? Tinny, scratchy sound. Oh noes, mi amigos.

Here’s how to see if this is your issue:

$ dmesg | grep intel8x0

If you see something about it setting to ###### usecs, and that lovely number isn’t 48000, add this to your /etc/modprobe.conf:

options sndintel8x0 ac97clock=48000

Thanks to ivasquez, nirik, yarddog, and tyrok from #fedora!