Re: Strange noise in the beginning of each sound - Creative SoundBlaster Extigy

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On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Stefan Nagy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I use an external Creative SoundBlaster Extigy as second sound card on
> Ubuntu Dapper Drake. For more than one and a half year now I have a
> problem with the sound card - even though I changed the hole
> configuration of my system several times.
>
> In general, the sound card workes fine - but in the beginning of every
> sound there is a cracking noise. Sometimes it's louder, sometimes it's
> more quiet. The sound in general is good, there's just that noise in the
> beginning...
>
> Meanwhile I'm really interested in the reason why there's that noise in
> the beginning of each sound. I have a HP Compaq Business Notebook nx7000
> and I wanted to see, if there is the same noise on another nx7000 (my
> friend has the same notebook) running Ubuntu - the answer is yes. I had
> the same problem with Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog and Breezy Badger. I also
> tested the soundcard several times with Windows - and there's no strange
> noise in the beginning of every sound.
>
> I'm a newbie, I don't know what the problem could be. Maybe it has
> something to do with the voltage of the USB port?
>
> Even if I turn down the volume to 5%, so that I can't hear no sound at
> all, there is the noise in the beginning (as loud as always). If it
> would help I could record that noise with my mobile.

Why don't you run an cable from the output to the input and record the
noise

arecord -fCD >/tmp/noise &
aplay name-of-a.wav
killall arecord

Then you can look at it and try to see what it is.




>
> I hope someone can help me. Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Stefan.
>
>
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