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On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:34:21PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote |
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> Hello, |
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> My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone |
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> has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume |
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> knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. |
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> This happens whether I am listening a beautiful song or whether I'm |
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> listening to 'white noise'. Happens with my laptop speakers or with |
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> headphones. |
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> Can anyone hazard a guess as to what is wrong? FYI I'm using a Dell |
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> M6600 with the same amd64 gentoo install for ~2 years. |
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At the risk of starting a flamewar, did you recently install a "sound |
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server" (e.g. pulseaudio/phonon/whatever)? Can you temporarily disable |
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it and see how the sound comes out? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |