Rogan Dawes wrote: > I am experiencing an annoying popping sound from my speakers, driven > by the onboard sound on the Asus P8Z68V motherboard. > > Monitoring the situation, I am getting desktop notifications that the > "Volume is muted", followed instantly by "Volume is at X%" The hardware cannot generate such notifications, so this must be some software accessing the mixer control(s). Try to find out who has opened, or is opening, /dev/snd/controlC0. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user