<DIV><BR><B><I>Price Technology <pricetech@charter.net></I></B> wrote:
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<P>Sam Tregar wrote:<BR><BR>> I'm not kidding. When I listen to music on my laptop running FC2<BR>> every so often I hear the unmistakable sound of a robot passing gas.<BR>> It's somewhere between a buzz and static. Does anyone know how to<BR>> solve this?<BR>> <BR>> The machine is a Thinkpad T20. The sound chip is a Crystal Audio<BR>> Sound Fusion PCI. I'm using the cs46xx ALSA driver in a 2.6.7<BR>> kernel. I added the "thinkpad=1" option in modprobe.conf but that<BR>> didn't help.<BR>> <BR>> I'm thinking about trying the OSS driver since it's still in the<BR>> kernel. Does anyone have a better idea?<BR>> <BR>> -sam<BR>> <BR>> <BR>Don't feed the laptop beans or cabbage.<BR><BR>fedora-list mailing list<BR>fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>To unsubscribe: <A href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A></P>
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<DIV>Sorry it's taken me such a long time to get to your post. </DIV>
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<DIV>I am a user of a Thinkpad R31. Presumably, your laptop is made to a much higher quality (it probably costed more and probably wasn't made in a Pacific island sweatshop), but the problem you describe is one I have suffered.</DIV>
<DIV>When I played music on the laptop it would be okay for a while and then it would start spluttering, and then the sound would degenerate from the crystal tones of Beethoven piano sonatas to that of a flatulent robot.</DIV>
<DIV>Later, the farting stopped and there was no more sound.</DIV>
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<DIV>And so I took it to a repair place, and they inspected the sound card. It turns out that they didn't kit the laptop out with a big enough fan or heatsink during the design stages and the soundcard's innards had burnt out and/or melted. I *think* IBMs tend to position their sound cards very near the processor and RAM part of the computer where the heat can build up big time.</DIV>
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<DIV>My message is: by all means don't rule out a hardward problem.</DIV><p>
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