Not sure if this is actually pulseaudio or something else, but since updating to F-11 (and allowing pulseaudio to remain, having removed it from F-10), I have a near-constant whining noise from the speakers on my laptop -- the speakers are turned on when they should be silent, and amplifying the electrical noise within the laptop. It's bizarre -- every time I do something like changing the volume (using the hotkeys) or even muting/unmuting the sound, I get a 'click' as if the amplifier is _actually_ being powered down, followed by 5 seconds of real silence before the noise comes back. If I run the F-10 gnome-volume-control, because nothing I can find in F-11 actually gives me control over the internal speaker amp switch, and I turn _off_ the internal speakers, then trying to play a sound is silent. But still, 5 seconds after 'play' finishes, the noise is back. The speakers seem to be back on again.
Sounds like it is a driver bug. PA closes the audio device after 5s of idle. If there is a noise, then it is due to some issue in the sound driver. Reassigning to kernel. Please exlain which driver you have.
snd-hda-intel, realtek codec, mbp4
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I can confirm this bug, although for a different sound hardware. I'm using Fedora 11 (final GA), and the random noise is there whenever I do *anything* on the computer - move my mouse, type something, scroll, do alt+tab etc. etc. It's quite loud and very irritating. I too have a Realtek AC97 chip (I can spot the following modules: snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus). This problem was not there for Fedora 10. The noise goes away only if mute the master channel, and not the PCM.
Okay. Just figured it out. I ran alsamixer -c0 and muted the CD channel, and the noise stopped. This might be of interest now: I have a TV tuner card (modules saa7134, saa7134_alsa) whose sound output is actually given using a CD audio cable to the sound hardware (built in to the motherboard). I haven't tested the tuner card with F11 yet. Anyway, muting out the CD channel cuts the noise out for me.
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