Re: Speaker static, vanishes with APIC

[Mark Watts]

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> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Mark Watts wrote:
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> > > This is really trivial and I solved it anyway, but in all incarnations
> > > of 2.6 I have had static coming from my speakers shortly after boot. 
> > > It only lasts a few seconds and sounds as though someone were jiggling
> > > the plug in the sound card's socket.  It only happens right after boot.
> > >  Since I enabled Local APIC and IO-APIC it hasn't happened.
> >
> > Did you get a similar noise when shutting down?
> >
> > My other half has an AMD motherboard with onboard Via sound which gives a
> > burst of static when KDE 3.1 starts and another when it shuts down. All
> > other sound is fine. (Kernel 2.4.22)
> >
> > APIC's are disabled on this board...
>
> No, just when starting up.  It doesn't even need to be in KDE; in fact,
> I've never noticed it in KDE since I start in text mode and check my mail
> before starting X (you know how it's impossible to hold off checking mail).
>  Your problem sounds different since it's in 2.4, also, and I never saw
> this in 2.4.
>
> However, KDE and sound don't always agree, in my experience.  They can't
> even get their own sounds right sometimes; when shutting it down their
> "shutdown" tune is always cut off as the aRts server exits before it
> finishes playing the sound.  This, of course, is not static.

Ah well - one more thing to rule out :)

Cheers,

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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