I think I blew up my own alsa configuration somehow

[Rashkae]

On 02/27/2012 06:03 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> After bricking my big machine with a new power supply, I sent my MB to 
> ASUS to check it out, just for ducks. Got it back and with a power 
> supply that doesn't have a smoke jinn in it, it's all back up and 
> running, except for my multichannel analog sound. I'm getting bleeps 
> and buzzing especially when I rotate the mouse wheel. This maddening, 
> especially after curing my ills with almixer/pavucontrol advice.
>
> My USB head phones work fine.
>
> So, I removed pulseaudio and still no joy. I'm running 11.10, 64bit
> although when I did a system clean up there was a bunch of 32bit files 
> removed. I have no clue how they got there. I sure don't want to have 
> to do another re-install. Not if I don't have to.
>
> <swears like drunken sailor> I'm peeved. Ric
>

You're getting noise on your audio from electronic interference.  I'm 
not sure what you can do there besides install a good quality discrete 
audio card.  Still, this is a hardware problem, not a software one.