kernel bug - sound clicks
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 20:59:42 UTC 2008
Hans de Goede wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:00 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> Loud clicks from speakers (snd_intel_8x0):
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450395
>>>
>>> Can somebody please look at this?
>>
>> Have a look at
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/03/28/clicking-of-snd_hda_intel/
>>
>
> Hmm,
>
> We really should find a way to make this just work. How about adding a
> quirk list for this to hal and make hal set the powerdown timeout to
> like 5 minutes on affected laptops?
Why not just make the driver lower the volume when you're not playing
any sound? (I suspect that will also cause it to take very slightly
less power, as well...) How long does it really take the hardware to
adjust it back to the setting we're displaying to the user in the event
of a noise?
--
Peter
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