On Feb 12, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I've narrowed down some parts of my current problems with sound. The > mouse is definitely a noise-maker: I move, I get a not-nice ripping > noise that tracks along with the mouse movement. I had hoped that the > problem would be the nVidia binary video driver, but the problem > occurs with the kernel sources driver as well. I've appended some > background info in case anyone sees an obvious flaw in the system. I had this exact problem on an older system, a an AMD K6-2 with a via chipset. (also NVidia card, btw) The only way I could solve it was to add a sound card and stop using the onboard sound.