Re: Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
> I remember having experienced something similar quite some time ago. I think
> it was related by having some mic-channel open or whatever. It looks like
> something is picking up the output signal and feeds it back to an input
> again.
> Anyway, I think I solved it by muting that channel. Can you try (eg. using
> alsamixer) to mute and unmute every channel, and see if muting one of those
> solves your issue.
> Hope this helps. If not, I have no idea what's the problem.
>

I run alsamixer and after probing all controls I found the muting Mic
Boos and Headphone solved the noise. I still can hear the noise too
low but only when I increase the Volume of my speakers to maximum. I
think that this is pretty normal.

Thanks a lot, I really believed that there was a problem with my
Debian Lenny. I didn't think that something so simple such as
adjusting alsamixer would be the solution. I feel ashamed :$

Bye :)

> Sjoerd
>
>


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Re: Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman

Jose Perez schreef:

Hi people:

I have a Debian Lenny amd64 (up to date) running on a MSI K9A2 Neo2
mainboard. I have sound working without problems when suddenly some
day started to sound badly: I hear a continuous noise like a
'shhh' (sorry if it seems funny but i don't know how to
explain this).

This noise happens always on Linux and I have tested against:

- Rebooting
- Disabling/enabling arts
- Turning on/off aplications sound applications (amarok, kmix, kaffeine, etc)
- Removing alsa-utils & alsa-base
- Changing speakers and headsets
...
- When increase os volume (with aumix) the noise get worse, like
something burning up
- When booting my Linux box (at some point of init scripts) the noise
get started
- When halting my Linux box (at some pooint of shutdown init scripts)
the noise disappears
- There's no noise at BIOS or GRUB booting time
I remember having experienced something similar quite some time ago. I 
think it was related by having some mic-channel open or whatever. It 
looks like something is picking up the output signal and feeds it back 
to an input again.
Anyway, I think I solved it by muting that channel. Can you try (eg. 
using alsamixer) to mute and unmute every channel, and see if muting one 
of those solves your issue.

Hope this helps. If not, I have no idea what's the problem.

Sjoerd



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Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people:

I have a Debian Lenny amd64 (up to date) running on a MSI K9A2 Neo2
mainboard. I have sound working without problems when suddenly some
day started to sound badly: I hear a continuous noise like a
'shhh' (sorry if it seems funny but i don't know how to
explain this).

This noise happens always on Linux and I have tested against:

- Rebooting
- Disabling/enabling arts
- Turning on/off aplications sound applications (amarok, kmix, kaffeine, etc)
- Removing alsa-utils & alsa-base
- Changing speakers and headsets

I tought my sound card (integrated on the mainboard) got damaged so
before asking for guarantee for my new PC I decided to install
Microsoft Windows and discard problems.
But surprisingly I noted that this noise isn't present at Windows
platform where everything sounds fine, perfect.
This extra information I got:

- When increase os volume (with aumix) the noise get worse, like
something burning up
- When booting my Linux box (at some point of init scripts) the noise
get started
- When halting my Linux box (at some pooint of shutdown init scripts)
the noise disappears
- There's no noise at BIOS or GRUB booting time

I think this is just a Linux problem. Does anybody has any idea?

Thanks and sorry by my bad english


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