Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 13:46 schrieb Anne Wilson: Hi Anne !
> My box runs 24/7, but I have to log out and in again fairly > frequently. The reason for this is that I get a really bad sound > corruption that seems to occur when I have been logged in for more > than 24 hours (but not a regular pattern, I think). Well I know that thing as it occurs here too. > (Now you may say that I should not be logged in, but I do like to > pick up all my mail first thing in the morning, so I leave it > collecting from time to time over the night.) no reason to argument ;). If you want do so, you should be able to do it. > The sound corruption that I'm experiencing comes with system sounds > (never tried a cd or mp3 while the corruption is there), and every > sound is accompanied by something like a clearing of the throat, but > at high volume - best description I can find. If I log out and in > again the problem disappears. Yep high frequent noise. As it was pointed out I think that this comes if more then one sound is played. On my system it was often caused by aplay that plays the system sound then mail has arrived. ( I have switched this crappy artsd off on my system. ) > Can anyone suggest a likely cause? On my system a 'service alsa restart' has fixed this issue all the time. If you have arts running and a relogin fixes it, it may be arts. It is interesting tough, since I thought all the time it is a bad soundcard driver. I have a Terratec DMX Fire 1024 using cs46xx driver and with the switch from 9.0 to 9.1 it got a lot better, with 9.2 beta1 I have the feeling sound is even better again, but that may be subjective. On further problem I may have here is that I have some dma problems (not enough bandwith on pci I guess, caused by my dvb card and sound card and high system load => cdrdao cue-burning ) Never had such things with the onboard sound, but the Terratec sounds so much better i stay with restarting alsa ;) short: Possible fix: switching off system sound ;) Steffen
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