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. I tried this, to no avail. Here's what I did. 1) Fired up FC 3 and logged into KDE. 2) Kicked off xmms with the KDE_Desktop1.wav (staticy noise can be heard from the speakers, I have it on repeat so it just keeps going). 3) I opened KMix at first and tried to adjust things. The only two controls that have any effect were PCM and Main Volume. 4) I then opened alsamixer and scrolled to the very far right. And reduced *everything* or muted it (if I could) moving back to the left. Nothing effects the sound until I get to WAV, PCM, and Main Volume. Every other control is at zero or muted. Seems that the Toshiba's just don't want to play nicely with the sound control stuff I guess. I find it fascinating that in one of the FC2 kernels (I upgraded with yum) it started to work. Needless to say I was shocked, but at the next kernel upgrade it stopped working. Thanks for the help. 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 >
