On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:29:13PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
I am suddenly having some type of problem with the audio on my system.
I'm running a 9.1 system with an Ensoniq card and I've never had a lick of trouble with it. But today I was running KDE 3.2 as root and I did "init 3". My system went to init 3, but I get white noise from the speakers.
I figured it was because of changing levels so I didn't think much of it. However, after a powerdown and power up, I still get the "static". The card still plays everything that I send it, but while playing the static is more quiet, but still present.
However, when I exit XMMS, the noise is back. It's almost like the mixer is folding in audio from a microphone that isn't plugged in, but I've never plugged one in...
Well, I was able to ameliorate the problem with qamix or one of those kde panels by adjusting the CD and PCM (what is that?) levels very high and everything else down. Basically those two inputs will overpower whatever the source of the noise is. I figure that when I started KDE as root and then did init 3 from a shell, I didn't give KDE a chance to restore some settings and that caused the problem. Is there any way to reset my sound card to factory defaults? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.