On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:51:00AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > have a little via c7 machine for my home workstation and the audio > chipset is detected as an azalia device > > azalia0 at pci4 dev 1 function 0 "VIA HD Audio" rev 0x00: irq 5 > azalia0: host: High Definition Audio rev. 1.0 > azalia0: codec: VIA/0x1708 (rev. 5.0), HDA version 1.0 > > when i play music through xmms, i do hear it but it is pretty much > washed out by a loud, constant, irritating tone that is substantially > louder than the music itself. AFAICT there is nothing else outputting > audio on the machine. > > advice on how to do any of the following would be appreciated: > > - determine if something on the machine is generating this sound
use a simpler audio client, like aucat(1), or just cat(1). e.g. this should be silent: $ audioctl play.encoding=slinear_le play.precision=16 $ cat /dev/zero > /dev/sound > - stop the sound > - fix the driver > > i took a glance over the commits to azalia.c azalia_codec.c and nothing > popped out at me as an obvious fix. is there an entry for your codec in azalia_codec.c? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
