On Wednesday 10 November 2004 3:53 am, Thomas Richter wrote: > after a fresh install of FC3 yesterday, alsa does not seem to > work properly. Sometimes I get sound. But then for no apparent > reason, I get crackling noise, I don't know the answer to your other problems, but here's how to fix the crackling noise issue. Go into your mixer control app (KMix in KDE, I think it's called Volume Control in Gnome) and you'll find a couple of input devices called IEC958. I have no idea what they are, but if you turn off the right one the noise will stop. This needs to be done by each user on the system. Ken