On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 02:18, Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 28 June 2004 07:37, Barry Yu wrote: > > When I switched into KDE desktop, just began the peripheral > > initializing, can hear some static noise coming up from left speaker, > ... > > same thing will happen again. Any one can suggest a fix for this > > annoyance? > > I can't help with a fix, but I can also note that it seems KDE is setting > volume on boot using OSS emulation, trashing the correctly reset alsactl > restore. The OSS emulation does not know about as many settings as the > native ALSA and this causes trouble. > > - -Andy In kde open kmix, then click advanced, then uncheck IEC958 I dont know what it does but it gets rid of the hiss