[gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Alecks Gates
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 17:31, Alecks Gates wrote: I would check the inputs in alsamixer and play around with them. I had a problem similar to this for many months and it was due to some funny input volume I didn't need, so I muted it. Thanks for replying, I have muted everything, except Headphones,

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote: I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system electrical noise. What happens when you set: * Master - 100 * Headphone - 100 * Everything else - 0 If I do not play anything while PCM is at 0 and Master and Headphone are at

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote: I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system electrical noise. What happens when you set: * Master - 100 * Headphone - 100 * Everything else - 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote: There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote: There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and