On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 1:15 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 07:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My box runs 24/7, but I have to log out and in again fairly > > frequently. The reason for this is that I get a really bad sound > > corruption that seems to occur when I have been logged in for > > more than 24 hours (but not a regular pattern, I think). > > > > (Now you may say that I should not be logged in, but I do like to > > pick up all my mail first thing in the morning, so I leave it > > collecting from time to time over the night.) > > I have fetchmail running to collect mail, at least to the spool but > it runs in daemon mode, so I don't need to be logged in for this > occur. Might not be what you want but I don't see a connection > between the sound problems and being logged in short of regular > noise being pumped through the system due to a desktop being up. > Setting up a better mail collection system is one of those jobs that I keep meaning to do <g>. I do have a wav attached to kmail's notifier, as the system beep is not loud enough to catch my attention if I'm doing things away from the computer. This has not always been so, it was very loud at first, but after about a week I began to have this quieter sound. I have played with aumix and kmix, to no avail.
Of course, much of the mail on the mdk lists comes from USA and Canada, so arrives during the night for me, so there could be a fairly regular use of the wav file - it polls every three minutes. > I assume that you have a GUI up all the time, not just logged into > the console... > Yup - kmail is fetching, under kde. > > The sound corruption that I'm experiencing comes with system > > sounds (never tried a cd or mp3 while the corruption is there), > > and every sound is accompanied by something like a clearing of > > the throat, but at high volume - best description I can find. If > > I log out and in again the problem disappears. > > I have noticed weird catches in my sound as well, at odd times, but > mostly after doing things with multiple sounds being pumped through > Arts. I have always though it was some type of issue with the > fairly new sound hardware on my motherboard. Figured that better > drivers would come out in the next version or so. > I guess we'll soon know the answer to that. > > Can anyone suggest a likely cause? > > Perhaps heat from the active system? Is the case cooled well? Did > this just start to happen or has it been an ongoing thing? I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne
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