From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: When I log in to Fedora I need to run the system-config-soundcard program before I get any sound with my system, but after running it (and sound working) I get a periodic static 'click' - every 20 seconds or so. It's the same sort of noise I've heard before when a soundcard initialises - a short static burst that sounds like a click. The audio device is identified as: Vendor: nVidia Model: Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP) Module: snd-intel8x0 This problem has occurred on both Fedora Core 2 and 3 on my system (Microsoft Windows doesn't have an issue with it). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log on to Fedora on system with MCP onboard audio processor (NVidia) 2. Run system-config-sound to detect soundcard 3. Play some sound through any application - static clicks occur periodically (please note sound isn't required to make it happen, it just accentuates it) Actual Results: Static bursts (clicks) occur every 10-20 seconds Expected Results: No static, sound played smoothly with no interference Additional info: I'm not 100% sure this is the cause of the problem - suspect it could be the kernel drivers for this module as bug 139747 cites a similar problem.
Sounds like a driver problem.
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