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amuroray

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From: Indonesia

Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

I executed "pacman -Syu" yesterday. And after update my headphone isn't turned on automatically. I had install alsamixer and unmute it manually, but the problem is the headphone keeps producing annoying noises. It never happened before the update. I have win***s installed and got no problem with it.
Don't know what to do here. I've been using linux (mandriva, opensuse, fedora, slackware, and mostly ubuntu) for 5 years, but haven't been working with arch until a month ago, so you probably underestand my situation.

Thank for the cooperation..

Last edited by amuroray (2011-05-29 00:53:01)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

It never happened before the update.

So, show *what* got updated.

The kernel? ALSA packages?

amuroray

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From: Indonesia

Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

yeah it was the kernel, nvidia driver, and others

core/grep core/mkinitcpio 
core/cryptsetup
core/kbd 
core/attr 
core/gcc 
core/xz 
core/file 
core/initscripts 
core/acl 
core/lzo2 
core/util-linux 
core/kernel26 
core/linux-firmware 
core/gmp 
core/udev 
core/gcc-libs 
core/sqlite3 
core/device-mapper 
core/lvm2 
core/binutils 
core/glib2 
extra/kdelibs 
extra/p7zip 
extra/akonadi 
extra/kdeedu-marble 
extra/udisks extra/poppler-qt 
extra/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 
extra/gstreamer0.10-ugly extra/acpid 
extra/boost-libs extra/gstreamer0.10 
extra/kdebase-workspace 
extra/poppler 
extra/wvdial 
extra/gstreamer0.10-base 
extra/kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement 
extra/libftdi 
extra/parted 
extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 
extra/git 
extra/liblqr 
extra/upower 
extra/libssh2 
extra/nvidia-utils 
extra/chromium 
extra/partitionmanager 
extra/curl 
extra/gnutls 
extra/nvidia 
extra/neon 
extra/libjpeg-turbo 
community/packagekit-qt community/opera community/packagekit

and one more thing, when booting up i noticed that when udev was starting, there was a slight click sound coming from my headphones twice. I assume that was a sign that the headphone was turned on and turned off again when udev was starting, so maybe it was udev problem, i think.

amuroray

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From: Indonesia

Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

bump bump bump

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

I would revert to the earlier kernel, and also check the ALSA documentation for your soundcard.

amuroray

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From: Indonesia

Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

thanks i downgraded the kernel but no luck. so I upgraded it back.
and after more searching I found out that all i have to do is add "options snd-hda-intel model=auto" to my modprobe.conf.
the headphone's turned on automatically now.
the only problem left now is non-stop hissing sound (i realized "noise" wasn't appropiate) that come from my headphone.
I know it's not the device, cause i don't get this problem on win***s.

Leffe

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

Try muting/zeroing various channels.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

non-stop hissing sound

You sure that auto is the right model?

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

Does the sound come out also when an application is playing sound or has opened the sound device? (e.g. deadbeef on pause.)

amuroray

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From: Indonesia

Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

nooo.....
I'm ashamed of myself...
the solution is simple.
I just got to turn the mic channel off in the playback device.
sorry for the trouble.
still, i learned a lot of stuff

Thank you so much for the help.

Last edited by amuroray (2011-05-29 00:52:27)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Headphone keep producing noises after update

I'm ashamed of myself...

No need to be ashamed, I too make a "non-stop hissing sound" when sitting at the computer ;P ;-)