Horrible Static sound while playing sound.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-11-2003

I have an AC'97 onboard audio, and While sound files (such as the logon sound on KDE) play, all sound has a terrible static sound mixed in that I think could be best described as a fly being fried on a bug zapper. Can anyone help me get CLEAR sound?

**yowwww** · 05-11-2003

try adjusting your volume levels - might be on xmms (if u use it) and take a really good look at kmix (if you're using kde) and make sure none of the levels are too high

**Dolda2000** · 05-11-2003

First, see if the problem is in the actual sound driver or in the sound multiplexer. You can test the output of OSS (which is the sound driver) by playing an MP3 with this command:

Code:

mpg123 -s filename | sox -t .raw -r 44100 -c 2 -sw - -t ossdsp /dev/dsp

filename is the name of any MP3 file you want to try with.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-11-2003

But I already knew that this static plays on anything that plays sound. any sound type (mp3, wav etc.) I got it to stop once or twice by messing with the sound configuration in the control center but even that isnt working anymore. and I am not sure exactly what it was that did it in the first place. I was tinkering with turning off aRTs and different set ups in that area. and i am not sure what happened but I had lear sound for a little while but a program crashed and I had to restart so I havent been able to duplicate the clear sound since

**Dolda2000** · 05-11-2003

The command wasn't meant to test whether the sound would work an certain types of files, but on certain ways of playing the sound.
Should I take that reply as an indication that it failed?
In that case, check if any other programs are using the DSP with "fuser -v /dev/dsp". You'll need to run that as root.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-11-2003

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp Philosophy 3808 f.... artsd
Philosophy 3810 f.... artsd

That is what it says

**Dolda2000** · 05-12-2003

Did you try what yowwww said?

**slant6** · 05-12-2003

Do you have a PCI sound card, i.e. separate from the motherboard? If so, make sure it is plugged in completely. Sometimes if a sound card has not been properly installed, you will hear static when playing sound files. Just a thought.

**wassy121** · 05-12-2003

I had this issue with artsd as well, I don't like those combiner programs. Try turning off artsd, then logging in again, make sure that artsd isn't running (with `ps -auxww | grep artsd`) and see if that stops the problem.

**Dolda2000** · 05-12-2003

Can KDE applications use OSS if arts isn't enabled? I'm pretty sure that GNOME applications can't do that if esd isn't enabled.

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