> I have an ESS 1688 AudioDrive [...]
[...]
> When playing sound [...] I get a buzzing/clicking type noise in
> the speaker. These noises seem to happen when a screen update happens,
> but it's hard to tell. I'm pretty sure I hear the clicks with keypresses
> (or is it the key appearing on the terminal?) and a buzzing with the
> moving of the mouse. Heck, I could even swear I heard it when the
> harddrive is doing its thing.
You've got an internal microphone on your machine, and the sound driver by
default sets it's volume non-zero. So you *are* hearing your keypresses,
disk activity, mouse movement, etc... picked up by the mic and amplified
for your listening pleasure. You've probably got a laptop with "built-in
audio." That's my guess, at least; that's what my mysterious noises were.
The following program executed in one of your startup scripts will solve
all your problems:
----------- begin file mutemic.c -------------
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/soundcard.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int n = 0;
int mixer = open("/dev/mixer", O_RDWR);
if (!(mixer<0)) {
ioctl(mixer, SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_MIC, &n);
close(mixer);
return 0;
} else return 1;
}
------------- end file mutemic.c --------------------
--Scott
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