[CentOS] Re: Sound problems with CentOS

Wed May 2 05:41:57 UTC 2007
Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com>

> Preston Crawford spake the following on 5/1/2007 1:14 PM:
>>> Preston Crawford wrote:
>>>> Has anyone experienced this before? This happened to me even under
>>>> CentOS
>>>> 4.x. But basically what happens is that when I play MP3s, whatever the
>>>> right speaker crackles at higher volume. And it's always that speaker
>>>> and
>>>> only that speaker. If I turn the balance to the other speaker I have
>>>> no
>>>> problems. So it feels like it might be a mixer issue. I use Alsa, of
>>>> course, as that's what the default is. Is this a known issue or does
>>>> someone know how to fix it?
>>>>
>>> plug some small headphones into the line out jack of the sound card
>>> (large phones require too much juice), and see if you hear the
>>> crackling
>>> over these under the same settings.  if you DONT, its not the system or
>>> the hardware, its your speakers.  if you DO, you can continue to look
>>> into sound card issues.
>>
>> I'll try that, but why would 3 pairs of new speakers not be able to
>> function on the exact same side? I'm not sure I understand the technical
>> reason why all 3 speaker sets (different brands) would be malfunctioning
>> on the same side.
>>
>> Preston
> It could be as simple as a bad/dirty jack on the output. That would
> explain
> why all the speakers are noisy on the same side.
>

Yeah. Plugged in headphones and the same thing happened. No way it's
software related? Weird. I guess maybe I'll try putting a sound card into
it.

Preston