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Description of problem: I updated my girlfriend's MacBook to-day (the first time in a few weeks), and now the audio has some static in it. I am not sure whether this is a problem with alsa or pulseaudio. I was used to static back when I could adjust PCM and Master volume settings on my own laptop, and the problem was usually PCM being set above 72. I no longer have access to these settings, it seems, due to pulseaudio. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. play some music (eg. ogg123 beethoven.ogg :) Actual results: * hear music, but with static (as though PCM is too high) * music is also quiet (even when volume from gnome-volume-control is set to max) Expected results: * hear music at an appropriate volume and without static Additional info: I am wondering whether this computer is no longer detecting its soundcard correctly.
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(In reply to comment #0) > I no longer > have access to these settings, it seems, due to pulseaudio. How did you access the sound card setting? alsamixer -c 0? How does pulseaudio affect that?
alsamixer -c0 should fix your problem.
I changed my audio preferences to go back to OSS, and it fixed the problem. The default ALSA device shouldn't be pulseaudio if it is so broken.