On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, giampaolo ferradini wrote: > *this message was bounced because I did not confirm my subscription, please > disregard if a duplicate * > > Hi All, > > I was wondering if you guys could help with a scratching audio in my sound > card. Scratching in your audio? What does that mean? You have ome sound ( music) running and you turn on skype without turning off the music and thus try to have bothusing the sound system? The problem is probably pulse audio and/or skype , and probably has nothing to do with alsa or your soundcard. > > It appears when I receive Skype notifications, and for a few instants when > I start a new call, then stabilizes and disappears for the remaining of the > call, only to reappear when it ends. > So far I did not notice it with other applications. > > The phenomenon appeared in both installations that I tried, i.e. Ubuntu > 13.04 and Fedora 19, which I am currently using. > > The output of lspci is this one: > 07:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape > Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series] > > (In Ubuntu the output was somewhat different: 00:14.2 Audio device: > Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) But > I have been told I should not be surprised by it) > > Thanks a lot for the look you are taking :-) and for any suggestion, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user