On Thursday July 5 2007 10:34:00 am Michael Derek Barnett wrote:
Are these the same speakers, speaker wires and general physical placement for the last 3 or 9 years? Are they externally powered and is that a relatively clean or noise free circuit? Or are the speaker wires wrapped around your wireless antennas or microwave oven?
Yeah, the speakers (and more importantly I'm sure, the wires) are getting long in the tooth. But, I just plugged the box into the new speakers that we bought earlier this year for the other computer and it's still doing it's breakfast impersonation.
The wiring to the other speakers are running a different direction away from the box, but they are still near the router and the other computer currently running, so I might still be picking up interference from something over there.
Something interesting popped up though. The other speakers have seperate bass/treble knobs. If i turn the treble all the way down, the noise disappears. The bass setting has no effect, and turning down the treble in amarok's equalizer has no effect.
Clue. Sounds external to the box at this time.
Ever take just the system box itself to a different room or friend's place and tried totally different power, keyboard/mouse, speakers, monitor, etc?
I have, but I've slept since then, and I really doubt I bothered trying the sound when I did.
Starting to think with the test on the new speakers that this is an interference problem, but why would dvd audio sound okay, while other audio sounds horrible?
No fair! DVD audio sounds fine? Newer system so you probably don't have the separate audio cable on the DVD drive to the motherboard, just digital over the IDE cable. From there it goes through the same sound device, speaker wires and speakers as all the other sounds... unless I'm missing something there. What do you use for DVD playback? Kaffeine, MPlayer? I've had sound behave differently through those than through amaroK on occasion. Do you have a microphone, headset for VoIP/games or other audio input connected and have you tested with those unplugged? In kmix are those muted? Thinking of feedback squeal.
Thanks,
Derek
Good clues and troubleshooting so far. I keep thinking that there is one slider in kmix or alsamixergui that you are missing. One of my systems needed DAC or ADC (iirc) slider set about 50% or I'd get weird squealing under 10.2 and it had never done that before since 7.3. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes... -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org