Re: [Alsa-user] white noise when starting alsa

2017-03-10 Thread Marius Schrecker
Well, the problem is that my device is locked to 3.10 (Armbian kernel for pine64), which I know is very old, so can't really test with different kernels on that device. On Friday, March 10, 2017 14:42 CET, Clemens Ladisch wrote:  Marius Schrecker wrote: > Strangely, the

Re: [Alsa-user] white noise when starting alsa

2017-03-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Marius Schrecker wrote: > Strangely, the same DAC starts completely silent both on my debian laptop > kernel 4.8, Debian x86_64 and on my Logitech Squeezebox touch. Can you narrow it down to some specific kernel version? Regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] white noise when starting alsa

2017-03-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Marius Schrecker wrote: > the noise continued until I do a: > > ~# aplay -v -D hw:CARD=PRO -f S32_LE -c 2 -d 1 /dev/zero > > At which point it stopped. Apparently, the firmware of this device thinks it should play something, and errorenously does so even if there is not anything to play. (It

Re: [Alsa-user] white noise when starting alsa

2017-03-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Marius Schrecker wrote: > During init, when the DAC is initialised, I always get a few seconds > of white noise through bot channels. This persists until squeezelite > starts, at which point it becomes silent. Probably some wrong mixer control. > have tried both disabling alsa-restore.service

[Alsa-user] white noise when starting alsa

2017-03-10 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi,   I have a problem on a system where my only sound device is a USB DAC. All other device driver modules are removed. The only audio application that should be running is "squeezelite", which starts as a service. towards the end of the init process. During init, when the DAC is