Sound Crackling after installing Nvidia Drivers

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Saturday 24 February 2007 11:34:06 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 1:37 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip, but no joy.  The only time it does that is when I
> > load up a 3D intensive game, like "SuperTux" or "Chromium".  Sometimes it
> > sounds like the battery is dying on an old Cassette player.
>
> I've seen another with exactly this problem.  I'm too tired to bother at
> the moment, and I don't quite remember the details.  There should be a
> thread on the rosegarden-user or rosegarden-devel mailing list detailing
> the plight of Richard Cooper, I think it was.  He eventually solved his
> problem by building a hardware synth out of junk.  There's a Youtube video
> showing the thing in action.  It was amazing, but I don't think he ever got
> Linux audio and the NVIDIA drivers to play nice with each other.  He
> probably wound up using the free driver with broken 3D support.
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre

My problem is now extending beyond the Nvidia driver.  Basically whenever I do 
VOIP from my laptop the sound is crappy, whether I use the "nv" module 
or "nvidia" for video, and my headphone jack doesn't work.  The sound 
continues to go out the speakers even if I have my headphones plugged in.

Anyone else have any ideas, or are there better sound drivers?  Or, am I stuck 
with windows on any machine that has an HD sound card?

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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
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