On Wed 18 April 07 14:58, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> hi all !
>
> My uptime in Linux doesn't really go over 2 days... why ?
>
> Because there is some very deep driver issue with my audio hardware,
> VIA 8237 audio.
> That is when working, my sound system suddenly fails, and starts to
> produce noise.
> - the problem is so deep that even "init 6" - full restart doesn't helps !
> !
>
> I still hear that noise even in GRUB Bootloader, where should be no
> sound at all ! ! !
Not sure if this is the same that happened to me yesterday...I was listening
to some .ogg's I'd made from one of my CD's, and decided to play around with
kmix (I normally use alsamixergui) to 'tweak' the output a little. I noticed
in kmix some things that were 'turned on' that weren't in alsamixergui, so, I
clicked on one of them and the next thing I know I've got the sound of three
cats fighting coming through my speakers, no music at all, just a nasty
screeching, scratchy sound.
I rebooted the system, and it was still there. I opened alsamixergui and
started looking at things and saw that my 'mic' *and* webcam were turned 'on'
to record from. I clicked off the 'mic' and the nasty sound instantly
stopped.
Unfortunately this is too simple to know what really happened. Maybe though
it'll give you an idea where else to look though. I've always hated kmix
because it never seemed to do things just as I wanted. YMMV.
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