From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bungle" Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:41:19 +0000 Subject: Clicking Crystal Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi. I have a Dell pc with on-board sound card in the form of Crystal CS4236 chips. I get a clicking noise at the beginning of sounds. Not allways - only if there is a period of silence first. For instance, if I am playing an MP3 and I do something in X that generates a sound event, the sound is hear fine with no clicking. But if there is no sound playing and a new sound is played, you get a click whose volume is proportionsal to the amount of time it's been silent for - ie longer silence gives a louder click. If it was an analogue device, I would suspect a faulty decoupling capacitor, causing DC to build up on the output. But it's digital and only happens in Linux (not Windoze). This implies it is a driver thing. Does anyone know a fix for this? Paul Unix techy Walton