Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 165266
Realtek High Definition Audio Produces Static in All Applications
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:11 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.1 Description of problem: When I use any application that produces sound, when the sound is being played, there is a constant static. This includes, but is not limited to: xine, xmms, and CD Player. When there is no sound playing, there is no static present. I have a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on it as well. In Windows XP, there is no static at all--the sound is crystal clear. I have a Realtek High Definition Audio sound card. I also used Fedora Core 4 Test 3, and there was no static present in that version of the sound card driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.9rf-2.FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a program that plays sound 2. Play the sound 3. The static occurs only when sound is playing, and at about 75% of the volume of the sound. Actual Results: Static occurs while the sound is playing, and does not occur when the sound stops. Expected Results: No static while the sound is playing. Additional info:
Could you check the new system-config-soundcard (from devel) and set "Use only the hardware device" option?
I can do that for you, but it will be my first time to get this from devel, being fairly new to Linux. Can you point me in the right direction? I tried checking "yum", but no luck. Where do I go to get "official" updates that are not on yum? Thanks! Sam
Don't worry about devel, simply remove all lines from /etc/asound.conf and write there: pcm.!default { type hw card 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }
Worked perfectly! No more static--it is crystal clear (even moreso than when I boot in Windows)! Thanks! Sam