From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:48:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Clicking Crystal Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Christoph, I have had this problem with my cs4232 forever. Is this something you plan on addressing in your current wave of sound driver cleanup? Thanks! Miles Bungle wrote: > > 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