>>>> When playing sound, I hear occasional crackling from my speakers; like a >>>> popping sound. The strange thing is that it ran fine at first with >>>> Ubuntu dapper (2.6.15 kernel) and after an upgrade to edgy (2.6.17) >>>> things are this weird. The thing that worries is me is that when I boot >>>> with dapper, things are still weird. Could it be that my sound chip is >>>> in some inconsistent state, or should I start fearing that my hardware >>>> is failing? >>> no, i think it is just the codec... >> Just to make sure, I think I will have to install windows ... :-S > > Any results, yet? Well, the crackling went away again and I can use my speakers again. I think it happens when I try to use programs still using OSS instead of ALSA. One such example is cedega. I am not sure however, and I think a bios update would do a lot of good in this field. Dimitri ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
