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Ian Mackenzie

Member

From: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 3

Strange sound issues

I'm getting some weird sound issues recently on my laptop.  Music (Ogg files) seem to play fine through Juk, but if I try to play a WAV file using aplay, I get nasty static.  If I have Skype open, I get constant static (and it doesn't seem to want to shut down properly - even 'kill 5963' doesn't work, I needed to do 'kill -KILL 5963').  Finally, if I try to start Audacity, I get a weird short beeping noise and then the following error message:

audacity: pcm_params.c:2333: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.

ian@vivaldi:~> lsmod | grep "^snd"
snd_seq_oss            31872  0
snd_seq_midi_event      8192  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49968  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8332  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            40192  0
snd_mixer_oss          16512  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel         368944  0
snd_hwdep               8964  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcsp               11040  0
snd_pcm                69636  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcsp
snd_timer              21384  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    50724  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcsp,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          9224  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

ian@vivaldi:~> ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 2008-12-11 21:08 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 2008-12-11 21:08 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 2008-12-11 21:08 hwC1D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 2008-12-11 21:54 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 2008-12-11 21:08 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 2008-12-11 21:48 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 2008-12-11 21:08 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 2008-12-11 21:08 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 2008-12-11 21:08 timer

Any thoughts?  I'm not entirely sure where to start...

Ian Mackenzie

Member

From: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 3

Re: Strange sound issues

Update:  downgrading from 2.6.27.8-1 back to 2.6.27.7-1 fixed everything for me.  Now I just have to figure out what 2.6.27.8 is doing that's mucking up my audio...