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#1 2015-01-17 09:00:24

CelestialWalrus
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White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

I'm using Arch on my laptop and I've upgraded my kernel to 3.18.2 and I started to hear white noise in my headphones. The problem went away when I downgraded to 3.17.6.

I don't have Pulseaudio/OSS/Jack installed, only ALSA.

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#2 2015-01-17 10:14:33

hifi25nl
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

From kernel 3.18.x some new patches have been applied: https://github.com/lintweaker/xmos-native-dsd
You could try to install alsa-lib-git from AUR.

In my system 3.18.2 and alsa-lib-git are working fine.

If you want to try there are some already compiled packages here:
http://www.tophifi.it/ftp/packages/index_ftp.html

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#3 2015-01-17 10:26:02

CelestialWalrus
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

So this is going to get fixed in 3.18.3, right? I guess I'll just wait, I prefer to use official packages.

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#4 2015-01-17 11:26:53

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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

It was only a guess.
Kernel 3.18.x should be paired with next alsa 1.0.29

But the problem could be completely different...

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#5 2015-01-17 12:08:21

jsoy9pQbYVNu5nfU
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

It strongly depends on which codec you have got. You can report regressions directly on the alsa-devel mailing list (description and alsa-info.sh output for both the working and faulty state), since the bug tracker linked on their homepage is down (http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug).

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#6 2015-01-30 23:16:12

CelestialWalrus
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

hifi25nl wrote:

It was only a guess.
Kernel 3.18.x should be paired with next alsa 1.0.29

But the problem could be completely different...

3.18.4 and still not fixed. I'd report the bug but I don't know how to describe the problem. alsa-lib-git doesn't work for me.

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#7 2015-01-31 10:44:34

mich41
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

If it's some kind of constant, quiet hiss then try runnng alsamixer and muting everything you don't need.

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#8 2015-02-02 19:57:51

CelestialWalrus
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

mich41 wrote:

If it's some kind of constant, quiet hiss then try runnng alsamixer and muting everything you don't need.

Doesn't work.

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#9 2015-02-22 14:24:25

CelestialWalrus
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Re: White noise in headphones on ALSA at 3.18.2

3.18.6 and I'm still having the hissing noise issue. I've solved the problem (but it's still not OK as I use my laptop headphone port for external speakers) by buying an external DAC, but this should not happen. It worked OK in previous kernel versions.

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