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nordlicht

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From: Hamburg/Germany

Registered: 2003-07-23

Posts: 62

I can hear my mouse and some other devices

Hi

I just bought a ne Mainboard ( Asus A7N8X-X).
I installed for the nforce devices the intel_8x0 for sound and forcedeth for networking.

Now I hear strange sound when I move the mouse, load data fron HDD or DVD. Even moving the curser with the arrowkey will make such sound.

What have I to mute such sounds?

my modules

soundcore              10848  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10244  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
tsdev                   8384  0
usbhid                 48416  0
usb_storage            66752  1
ehci_hcd               37256  0
ohci_hcd               23044  0
uhci_hcd               33808  0
tvaudio                24356  0
msp3400                27816  0
bttv                  160016  0
video_buf              22660  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit            9864  1 bttv
v4l2_common             6272  1 bttv
btcx_risc               5384  1 bttv
tveeprom               13592  1 bttv
i2c_core               22784  5 tvaudio,msp3400,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
videodev               10368  1 bttv
forcedeth              20480  0
usbcore               127740  6 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
rtc                    14156  0
evdev                  10240  0

thank you

chris

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

try muting mic or other audio inputs.

kleptophobiac

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From: Sunnyvale, CA

Registered: 2004-04-25

Posts: 489

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

It also helps if you have shielded cables

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

There's a similar problem with Via8235 onboard audio, actually. Try reducing your CD volume and see where that gets you.

nordlicht

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From: Hamburg/Germany

Registered: 2003-07-23

Posts: 62

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

thank you

muting the cd input makes things better but the problemn is still there.

chris

Pointer

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 39

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

i mute the bttv, this works on my system

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

thank you

muting the cd input makes things better but the problemn is still there.

chris

tried muting every other input? mic and others?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

Wait a minute... Play an MP3 or something and reduce the Master volume while it's playing. Does the volume of the audio go down, or does it seem as though nothing has happened?

rose

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 64

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

Do you have on-board sound? Then it might happen just because it's crappy. Try running glxgears. Do you hear something?
You can alleviate the problem by:
1) downclocking - by 50% you will get a good noise reduction
2) run kernel with "no-hlt" option (prevents from turning on and off the cpu, so the power supply is more stable)

keevn7

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From: Lancaster, OH, US

Registered: 2005-06-09

Posts: 206

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Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

Have you looked into the official nVIDIA sound drivers? I use them for the nVIDIA SoundStorm that came with my nForce2 and get Dolby Digital and hardware mixing. I am not sure if they work with later models, but they should. To do this, do `pacman -S nforce` And make sure no other sound modules are loaded or no other sound support exists in the kernel other than the basic sound support. Then load nvsound.

With this you get nvmixer for adjusting the volume. You can use nvmix-reg in order to store/restore the mixer settings. Cheers.

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mdk

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From: Helsinki/Finland

Registered: 2005-04-04

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Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

Man, this is nothing. On my system (Soltek nvidia mobo), I can see tiny-little  noise on the screen when the CPU usage goes high. I tried changing video cables, shielding everything, playing with bios settings... it's still there. Fortunately it doesn't seem to affect stability.

It's the last time I invested my money in this nvidia bullshit. Hopefully I'll get a matrox G550 soon. Closed drivers = bad thing (Yes, apart from the noise I sometimes experience the infamous nvidia bug)

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mouse256

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From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

I have this problem too on my asus A7N8X-deluxe, but I have 2 solutions for this problem

On my gentoo box I solved it with the following command:

setpci -s 0:00.0 6F.B=0F

I found it somewhere on a forum, it disables cpu disconnect or something like that.  Anyway, it works nice, so I created a bootup script to execute it every bootup

But I installed archlinux a week ago and I used the latest nvidia drivers this time (they are in the extra repository) and I do not have the problem anymore.  I can clearly hear the noise untill I type "modprobe nvsound", then it all disappears

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: I can hear my mouse and some other devices

If you can hear the CD player spinning away, you might want to remove the CD-in cable - it's no longer necessary for using CD audio.