kernel bug - sound clicks

[Peter Jones]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:00 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> Loud clicks from speakers (snd_intel_8x0):
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450395
>>>
>>> Can somebody please look at this?
>>
>> Have a look at
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/03/28/clicking-of-snd_hda_intel/
>>
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> We really should find a way to make this just work. How about adding a 
> quirk list for this to hal and make hal set the powerdown timeout to 
> like 5 minutes on affected laptops?

Why not just make the driver lower the volume when you're not playing 
any sound?  (I suspect that will also cause it to take very slightly 
less power, as well...)  How long does it really take the hardware to 
adjust it back to the setting we're displaying to the user in the event 
of a noise?

-- 
   Peter