Physical failures in an on-board sound card can degrade the quality of your computer's audio output in degrees ranging from nagging feedback to complete failure. However, you aren't locked into your ...

Every hardware device connected to your computer requires drivers to function properly. This includes motherboard-integrated devices, such as graphics cards and sound cards. When a device stops ...

I have a laptop that is a clone of the Dell Inspirion 5000. I have set up four hard drives with various installitions of different distros. Two of them have Suse v8.0 with KDE upgraded to v3.1. All ...

It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Your PC can produce pretty decent audio without your having to spend a dime on new hardware, so why the heck are we advocating doing just that? Because you’ll ...

Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

If you have used Creative sound cards in the past, you will already be very familiar with the audio console. For brevity, I won't go through every detail but will briefly mention some of the most ...

Once I set up the Crystalizer and bumped up to 24 bit depth, I was ready to start experimenting. I started by using the supplied Creative headphones while listening to some music. I have a wide array ...