This is a very wierd problem. I've just upgraded alsa to version 1.0.8, and ever since I hear white noise, whtether or not the soundcard is in use. I tried to play around with the mixer, and disabling the microphone boost seems to solve the problem. However, this is a nasty bug, as I *need* the microphone boost. For some reason, when I touch the microphone the noise is much weaker, and when I put it away from the screen the noise is also weaker, but still persists. It did not happen with previous versions of alsa. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: white noise should not be heard Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 31 2004, 14:46:37)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X X509 acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt ctype cups dga divx4linux doc dpms encode foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 icq imagemagick imlib jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mono mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg msn ncurses nls nomotif nowin nptl offensive opengl pam pdflib perl pic png python qt readline real sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tetex threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xine xmlxml2 xv xvid zlib video_cards_i915 linguas_he" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
This doesn't sound like a bug to me. Are you sure you din't hear the noise with 1.0.7?
100% sure.
ok, well I'm assuming when you mean alsa here, you mean alsa-drivers as this shouldn't be dependent on the libs. Was this present in alsa-drivers-1.0.8_rc1? You'll probably find better help upstream as I can't reproduce this problem =( Could you file a bug at www.alsa-project.org and report the bug number to me so I can track it, thanks.
Frankly, I think it does have something to do with alsa-lib. This is because I did not even emerge alsa-driver - I use the module that is supplied with the kernel.
Ok, well please file a bug upstream and report the bug number her, so I can follow it. Thanks.
