From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CF21381F3 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C99CFE0B5F; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92E84E0B58 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9511833E0D3 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.08 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.08 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.646, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.474, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gD10KJS9AJvX for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4AC833DD01 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UjcCX-0003C1-VG for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:22:01 +0200 Received: from athedsl-349194.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.219.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:22:01 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-349194.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:22:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:21:40 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-349194.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: d8b4d845-3215-4090-ac30-a9afa9c98370 X-Archives-Hash: f3405902ac2339bfe007a4fa3e60e95f On 03/06/13 07:34, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > 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. Are you using a self-configured kernel? What sound chip is in your laptop? What driver are you using? If it's an Intel codec, have you tried enabling all different variants of that codec in the kernel?