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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 08:52:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130603085206.32bd79ad@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPi0psuoFdPT=vLXM_TqqckSN45U+gRoEYLDfV6S9E0mi+pGEg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:34:21 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:

> My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago.  Imagine someone
> has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume
> knob up and down.  That is a rough idea of what it sounds like.
> 
> This happens whether I am listening a beautiful song or whether I'm
> listening to 'white noise'.  Happens with my laptop speakers or with
> headphones.
> 
> Can anyone hazard a guess as to what is wrong?  FYI I'm using a Dell
> M6600 with the same amd64 gentoo install for ~2 years.

Eliminate hardware failure as a cause by trying it from a live CD.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03  4:34 [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-03  7:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-06-03 17:28   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-06-03 20:51     ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-03 20:54       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-06-06 15:04       ` Fast Turtle
2013-06-03 20:49   ` [gentoo-user] " Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-03 20:07 ` Walter Dnes
2013-06-03 20:55   ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-03 21:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-06-03 22:47   ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-03 23:46     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-06-04  7:11       ` Mick
2013-06-04  6:18     ` Dale

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