On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:03 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
Ian Wallace wrote:
Hello everyone. I've just recently upgraded my FC2 laptop to FC3 and to my dismay the PCM playback (xine, xmms, aplay) all produce staticy sounds. I've googled on the subject and tried the following to correct it:
(As an aside sound in FC2 was spotty on this same machine ... however during it's life time, and several kernels the sound did work at one point, it always worked on FC1).
*) Made sure that my volumes aren't muted etc. I hear the sound, it's just horrid.
Um. I don't have your hardware, but I suspect you've got something digital going down the wires that connect to your speakers.
Play something, and one by one mute everything that *doesn't* get rid of the music. When the noise goes, you've found your culprit...
James.
James - Thanks for the reply. I'll give that a shot. What tool should I be using to mute the channels? I'm not so savvy with the sound system ... do all the mixer's just control the same volume controls? So, kmix, aumix, aumix-minimal, etc? I'll play one of the distro waves/ogg files in /usr/share/sounds and see if I can get this to clear up. Lots of folks have mentioned turning of IEC958 (I think that was it) but there doesn't appear to be a way to do that (in some of the volume control programs that I've been looking at).
cheers ian
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