There's a robot farting in my ear.

[Mike]

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Art Ped
  Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:49 AM
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  Subject: Re: There's a robot farting in my ear.



  Price Technology <pricetech at charter.net> wrote:
    Sam Tregar wrote:

    > I'm not kidding. When I listen to music on my laptop running FC2
    > every so often I hear the unmistakable sound of a robot passing gas.
    > It's somewhere between a buzz and static. Does anyone know how to
    > solve this?
    >
    > The machine is a Thinkpad T20. The sound chip is a Crystal Audio
    > Sound Fusion PCI. I'm using the cs46xx ALSA driver in a 2.6.7
    > kernel. I added the "thinkpad=1" option in modprobe.conf but that
    > didn't help.
    >
    > I'm thinking about trying the OSS driver since it's still in the
    > kernel. Does anyone have a better idea?
    >
    > -sam
    >
    >
    Don't feed the laptop beans or cabbage.

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         Dear Sam


  Sorry it's taken me such a long time to get to your post.

  I am a user of a Thinkpad R31. Presumably, your laptop is made to a much
higher quality (it probably costed more and probably wasn't made in a
Pacific island sweatshop), but the problem you describe is one I have
suffered.
  When I played music on the laptop it would be okay for a while and then it
would start spluttering, and then the sound would degenerate from the
crystal tones of Beethoven piano sonatas to that of a flatulent robot.
  Later, the farting stopped and there was no more sound.

  And so I took it to a repair place, and they inspected the sound card. It
turns out that they didn't kit the laptop out with a big enough fan or
heatsink during the design stages and the soundcard's innards had burnt out
and/or melted. I *think* IBMs tend to position their sound cards very near
the processor and RAM part of the computer where the heat can build up big
time.

  My message is: by all means don't rule out a hardward problem.


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