On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Anthony wrote: > Hi, I've been hearing for some weeks now a very high > frequency, quiet crackling distortion when using my > delta44 on playback. This is with driver versions > 0.9.8 and 1.0.2. > > Symptoms: > * It only occurs on playback. > * It is not always present, but once it manifests > it is consistent. > * I've ruled out external gear by swapping everything > * It cannot be recorded...i.e. if i use jack capture > while it is happening, and playback on my other > card I do not hear it > * I have been able to reproduce it with alsaplayer > using the hardware layer (so not a jack problem). > * shutting down alsa apps and restarting the drivers > fixes the problem until it reoccurs. It can take > a long to to resurface. > * Of course, there is no way for me to rule out the > card itself as being the problem. > * Other than driver changes, my system has been > a rather stable 2.4.21 kernel.
It looks like that something is wrong with DACs. Does the noise occur on all outputs? Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel