Am Montag, 13. November 2006 17:11 schrieb Carlo Capocasa: > As always when blaming someone it turns out this has absolutely nothing > to do with the supposed culprit. Apparently, my lower-end Dell notebook > has a singing capacitor, which gets induced by the jack daemon calling > an interrupt, as indicated by the frequency of the noise problem > correlating to the jack buffer size. Interestingly, the noise is not > audible when the system is under some load. > > My current approach is to find a load generator that will place a little > load on the system to make the hum go away while still leaving some room > for softsynths. A simple load generator with low scheduling priority: echo 'for ((;1;)); do i=0; done;'|nice -n 19 sh Run it in a shell. Stop it with Ctrl+C. No need for kernel fix here ;-) Karsten