On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:48 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > First I think I should start out saying that I don't have too much of > a clue when it comes to Linux audio. Now that that's out of the way, I > have a box that works at the moment with ALSA + ESD + Gstreamer + > Gnome that allows me to do software mixing and all my sound works. The > problem I am having is that I have this constant crackle when I'm > listening to anything. I know its not EMF because the sound was clean > when I had Windoze on the box. Its not so loud that it makes listening > to anything unpleasant but it is quite annoying. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this? I saw on some > of the newsgroups that people say this is an ESD issue but nobody > seems to have a good solution. The card is some on board Intel High > Def audio thing that Albatron ships with their mobos (can get > specifics if needed). Any help would be appreciated. > > -Mike
It's the gstreamer-alsa plugin that is probably causing the crackle. There are several bug reports in Gnome bugzilla. If you are using dmix, you might want to look at this one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689 There are a few others, but the general solution is to either downgrade the gstreamer-alsa plugin or switch to using OSS instead of ALSA (which is what I did). If want to do this in Gnome, go to the Multimedia Systems Selector in the preferences menu, and switch the Default Output Sink to OSS. Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
