Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

["vizi0n (debian-user)" <debian-user@vizi0n.com>]

check if your cables are touching something else, i have that problem too 
when my hard drive accesses the data, my speaker does a weird sound. if the 
speakers are turned off, it wont do it, i have to see if i can put my wires 
somewhere else

viz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker


> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, one of the users logged into a KDE session after a long time. 
> As soon as the peripherals started, an error popped up on screen 
> indicating an error and the window also had a backtrace tab.
>
> Since that time there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left 
> speaker. Logging the user out and then back in does not work. I also 
> rebooted the machine and the sound started again (near the point where lp0 
> message comes up during the boot process). I logged in gnome, sound still 
> there, I logged in KDE sound still. While logging into KDE I do get the 
> initial login music. I also tried killing "kill -TERM" artsd, but that 
> also had  no effect on the hissing sound (it is similar what you get on an 
> FM radio when you are not tuned to any channed; the white noise).
>
> I am running 2.6.7 kernel and the sound card(as lspci shows) is:
> 0000:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
>
> I guess this is a difficult one and I haven't been able to give more info 
> (I am not sure where to start). My apologies. But if somebody could get me 
> started in the right directoin, I can investigate further what could be 
> wrong.
>
> thanks,
> ->HS
>
>
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