On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:34:21PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote > Hello, > > My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone > has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume > knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. > > This happens whether I am listening a beautiful song or whether I'm > listening to 'white noise'. Happens with my laptop speakers or with > headphones. > > Can anyone hazard a guess as to what is wrong? FYI I'm using a Dell > M6600 with the same amd64 gentoo install for ~2 years.
At the risk of starting a flamewar, did you recently install a "sound server" (e.g. pulseaudio/phonon/whatever)? Can you temporarily disable it and see how the sound comes out? -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
