ALSA creates extraneous sound when things happen on screen/mouse move/keyboard use, also sound unclear Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I really don't have to do anything except load Gentoo up. Expected Results: Play only the sound wanted. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
We can't really guess. What soundcard do you have? Which driver are you using and is it from kernel or from alsa ebuilds (and which version)? Also, the description of the problem is not really clear (for me at least).
I'm using the SoundBlaster Live! 24bit, with the kernel-compiled alsa. It just makes noise whenever I press a key, or something moves on the screen, or I move the mouse. I don't know how to explain it better.
Hmm, sound more like interference/IRQ issues. Did you try to move it to another slot? Also, please post the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'.
I'll try moving it to a different slot. By the way, I would just like to thank you guys for being so quick to respond and always having an answer. Companies should model customer support off you guys. CPU0 0: 3885203 XT-PIC timer 1: 5528 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 43234 XT-PIC eth0 7: 0 XT-PIC parport0 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 11: 100004 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, snd_ca0106 12: 310929 XT-PIC i8042 14: 74 XT-PIC ide0 15: 101043 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0
I tried using another PCI slot to no avail.
I seemed to have fixed it, and I was able to work with sound for a while, but now when I want to listen to music or whatnot the program I'm using simply repeats a second of the song over and over. This happens with every program. Whenever I press a button, the program freezes. Any advice?
Sorry, I forgot to say what I did. I turned off SPDIF Out.
The problem seems to solve itself... I tried using Totem as root, but the same thing happened. I was previously using Totem as admin (my user). Then I tried another media player, xmms. It worked fine as root, but I couldn't get it to add in admin. I rebooted, and everything worked. This is still a bug though, as Totem doesn't function correctly.
If the problem remains with totem, open a bug for totem.
