I think I blew up my own alsa configuration somehow

[Ric Moore]

On 02/27/2012 06:17 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> 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.

That's my thinking too, and they are cheap enough nowadays. Thanks. Ric


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