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 > > -- > James Wilkinson | "Minis on the other hand are just the wrong size. Too > Exeter Devon UK | small to work on directly and too large to put > E-mail address: james | upside down on the workbench." > @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- stevo at madcelt.org >
