There's a robot farting in my ear.

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Sam Tregar wrote:

> I'm not kidding.  When I listen to music on my laptop running FC2
> every so often I hear the unmistakable sound of a robot passing gas.
> It's somewhere between a buzz and static.  Does anyone know how to
> solve this?
> 
> The machine is a Thinkpad T20.  The sound chip is a Crystal Audio
> Sound Fusion PCI.  I'm using the cs46xx ALSA driver in a 2.6.7
> kernel.  I added the "thinkpad=1" option in modprobe.conf but that
> didn't help.
> 
> I'm thinking about trying the OSS driver since it's still in the
> kernel.  Does anyone have a better idea?
> 
> -sam
> 
> 
Don't feed the laptop beans or cabbage.