Sound crackling / distortion

[Tom Davis]

Steven Stern wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:04:38 -0500, Tom Davis <binjured at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I'm resubmitting this because it's been nearly a week without even a
>>single reply.  I guess since nobody has even attempted to help me on
>>about 5 different forums and 3 mailing lists, my problem must be the
>>first of its kind ever.
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>>Hey, I have a problem with sound distortion when using my Audigy NX
>>(USB) soundcard in Fedora Core 3.  Sound works fine in Windows XP Pro. I
>>am using ALSA and I believe I have the latest RPMs installed for it (I
>>don't have the latest alsa-driver-* because it comes in some .bz2(?)
>>format that I don't know how to install from, since I'm a total newbie
>>to this.  I just got the latest RPMs I could find).  I have tried
>>changing settings in alsamixer with no results. If anyone knows how to
>>fix this I would really appreciate it.  This is the last glaring problem
>>I can see with my new Linux install, so I want to get it fixed so I can
>>stop using Windows, like I am now, just to listen to music.
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>Let's grasp at some straws. Open up the mixer so you can see all the inputs.
>Start playing some music.  Move all of the sliders to zero.  Now, move them up
>one at a time. When you find the one that controls the music, is the crackling
>gone?
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>There were some threads a while ago about noise coming from unused but enabled
>inputs.
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Yes, I tried that to no avail.