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
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