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FS#9519 - Squealing while starting KDE

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jaroslaw Swierczynski (swiergot) - Sunday, 10 February 2008, 21:58 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 18:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I just lost my patience. I waited long enough hoping it would be fixed but now I'm starting to think I'm the only one with that problem. So I can't use any kernel newer than 2.6.22. KDM starts just fine but when I log in and KDE starts, an awful, high-pitched, piercing squeal appears and KDE locks up. It happened with kernel 2.6.23, it happens with 2.6.24 as well. I believe the squeal has something to do with kmix. Today somehow, after a few minutes of risking getting deaf, I saw KDE unlocked and I managed to open kmix. I started to lower volume levels one by one and the squeal stopped when I muted a microphone.

I tried to google the problem but didn't find anything (I might have used wrong keywords, I don't know). Perhaps tpowa will have any ideas. I have an Asus S96S laptop (microphone built-in).

$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 11 February 2008, 18:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 06:17 GMT
could it be that you have just a physical problem here,
if you use a microphone and a speaker which build a circle it sqeals.
Comment by Jaroslaw Swierczynski (swiergot) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 06:21 GMT
Perhaps, but how comes it worked with kernels 2.6.22 and older?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 06:27 GMT
probably your microphone was not supported there correct.
Why don't you just take away the take as input source flag from your microphone then you shouldn't get a sqeal anymore
Comment by Jaroslaw Swierczynski (swiergot) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 18:39 GMT
Apparently now my microphone is not supported correctly either :)

I have muted both microphone boosts and now everything works ok, well, everything but the microphone... it will not record anything :(

Please reject this ticket, I will raise my problem on one of the Alsa's mailing lists. Thanks for help.

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