Strange Noises in Sound

elkrammer · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: Strange Noises in Sound

Hi,

I have a Sound Blaster 128 PCI soundcard, using ALSA in kernel 2.6.8.
I'm using the ALSA module snd_ens1371.
While listening to music, or playing sounds in general, I hear strange noises, like little beeps.
I tried playing with the mixer (alsamixer) but I had no luck.
I also bought new speakers (I thought they were bad), but I still have this problem.

Thanks in advance.

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

is your mobo via chipset based?

elkrammer · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject:

Nope, it's not.

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

sorry, let-me be clear, some athlon motherboards with via chipset (northbridge/southbridge) produces strange noise in combination with some soundcards, especialy creative soundcards, these noises are frequentely associated with some software coolers like athcool.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125435&highlight=athcool

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=197156&highlight=athcool

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=200922&highlight=athcool

Titeuf · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject:

On my old pc I also had a soundblaster card, I don't remember wich one.
It used the same module, and the sound was bad in alsa.
When I used oss, I didn't have any problems

elkrammer · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

revertex:

Hi. Effectively, I was running athcool. I stopped it, and tried playing some music, and magic! The disgusting noise was gone.
Thanks a lot for your help

I didn't even think that athcool could be causing this. That was a very good observation from your part

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
elkrammer.