Bug 405741 - Crackling sound with T61
Summary: Crackling sound with T61
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 433495
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-30 10:20 UTC by Zdenek Kabelac
Modified: 2008-04-27 02:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-27 02:03:55 UTC
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2007-11-30 10:20:53 UTC
Description of problem:

With 2.6.24 kernel I get very ugly crackling sound from my T61 with recent
kernel (2.6.23 is running just find - no sound problems.
Even when I remove pcspkr (which is also now a good source of such cracklings)

Oh - and btw - why CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO is not set ?
I do not get brightness control interface in /proc


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.24-0.55.rc3.git3.fc9

How reproducible:


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Expected results:
clean sound 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Zdenek Kabelac 2007-12-11 16:43:14 UTC
Hi

Well I've moved myself to vanilla kernel -  latest fedora kernel:

vmlinuz-2.6.24-0.80.rc4.git6.fc9

doesn't play the sound at all - the volume move bar in gnome is basicaly
enable/disabling sound at various points (at least from the cracling I could
hear in the headphones)

I guess some patch from the fedora patch set is heavily broken....



Comment 2 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-01-07 13:38:07 UTC
My update for this report: 2.6.24-0.136.rc6.git12.fc9 

Sound with this kernel looks better (even thought the pcspkr module is better
rmmod-ed)  - at least  with OSS and volume setting everything seems to be just fine.

(yet with pulseaudio it is another horrible story...)

Comment 3 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-01-18 15:00:13 UTC
Hello another update on this issue - the problem appears to be with the power
saving.

with setting 0  here: /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
the sound is clean&clear

with setting 10 (which is default with fedora kernel) I do hear the crackling in
the sound i.e. before the mp3 song gets played (with

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2008-01-18 21:53:20 UTC
Kernel default is 5 in rawhide and 0 in Fedora 8. Maybe we need to disable it by
default and let users enable it at their own risk...

Comment 5 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-04-25 09:10:41 UTC
Bug could be probably closed - the problem is up to the user if he wants power
saving or not. Could be selected by this options line in /etc/modprobe.conf

options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=thinkpad power_save=0

I assume there is no way to make this power saving 'click-free' as even with
muted sound the audio click when it's in power_save mode :(



Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-27 02:03:55 UTC
Powersave is now off by default.

Closing as dup of the newer bug since that's the one in the changelog.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 433495 ***


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