Re: crackle and distortion on KDE audio
On 23/05/13 00:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:30 +0100, Dick Thomas wrote:
>> I've just installed KDE on wheezy
>> as I have a black magic pro capture card and on gnome it kills all
>> user permissions
>> (Shutdown, eject cdrom, etc) but with KDE it works, go figure!!
>>
>> but I've noticed the audio crackles and distorts when playing any audio
>> I've tried the inbuilt sound card and a sound blaster FX TI
>> Is there some setting that might fix this (other than removing pulse
>> audio as I need that)?
>>
>> I don't know what output from the CLI to give to hints what might be wrong
>
> AFAIK for PA issues it's more likely, that something completely doesn't
> work.
>
> Hard to say, where to start troubleshooting.
>
> Does your sound card share an IRQ with your mouse or keyboard?
>
> # cat /proc/interrupts
>
> If we found out what's going wrong, there are a lot of things you could
> do, or there's nothing you can do. Unfortunately I don't now much about
> PA. Does it provide to use audio IOs of both cards at the same time? I
> would disable one card and test what happens, if only one card is
> enabled.
>
>
I did
cat /proc/interrupts
and the output is here http://paste.debian.net/6477/
and sadly it means nothing to me other than I recognize some hardware names
the sounds is mostly fine on this reinstall just when I use vlc or other
media players I get distortion, not cool when I want to watch a DVD
Dick
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