Christoph,
I have had this problem with my cs4232 forever.
Is this something you plan on addressing in your
current wave of sound driver cleanup?
Thanks!
Miles
Bungle wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I have a Dell pc with on-board sound card in the form of Crystal CS4236 chips. I get
>a
> clicking noise at the beginning of sounds. Not allways - only if there is a period
>of silence
> first. For instance, if I am playing an MP3 and I do something in X that generates a
>sound
> event, the sound is hear fine with no clicking. But if there is no sound playing and
>a new
> sound is played, you get a click whose volume is proportionsal to the amount of time
>it's
> been silent for - ie longer silence gives a louder click.
>
> If it was an analogue device, I would suspect a faulty decoupling capacitor, causing
>DC to
> build up on the output. But it's digital and only happens in Linux (not Windoze).
>This implies
> it is a driver thing.
>
> Does anyone know a fix for this?
> Paul
> Unix techy
> Walton
