Am 20.12.2012 13:59, schrieb Asa Marco: > Hi everyone, > already once in theater we had a problem with disturbing pops when an > audio stream was stopped or started from PC, that disappeared by using > an Edirol UA25EX as interface. > > Now I notice that this problem afflicts also my laptop (either with > JACK or ALSA) and I really would like to get rid of it. > > Is the crappy internal soundcard (Intel, chip Realtek > ALC269) the only one to blame? What could cause these pops? > > Is there any way to deal with it at software level? Ususally when there's such a problem it happens when a program opens/closes the (ALSA) device. In such case, using JACK helps since the soundcard is "open" all the time. But since you say it happens when using JACK, too I guess it might be a power-saving feature. Try disabling power-saving / auto standby everywhere you can (BIOS, kernel options, ...) Jannis _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user