From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 18:35:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184A437B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8812643E75 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@nc.rr.com) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8 [24.93.67.55]) by ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA42ZZur006154; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:35:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from nc.rr.com ([24.74.128.130]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:35:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC5DCFB.9A986CBE@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:35:39 -0500 From: Michael E Mercer Reply-To: mmercer@nc.rr.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speaker now makes buzzing noise... References: <20021104021007.50723.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett, Thanks for the info, but that does not help. The buzzing continues.... Thanks Michael Mercer Brett Harris wrote: > Michael, > > > However, I used GAIM and after a few messages from > > people, the speakers start > > buzzing and the only way I can stop it is to reboot. > > You may find that the noise is your soundcard picking > up interference from your hard drives etc. Ive noticed > that if your CDrom/aux/mic inputs are turned up, they > will pick up interference. If you're not using your > mic/aux/cdrom etc inputs, you should turn them down. > Look at the man page for 'mixer', but from memory it's > something like: > > mixer mic 0:0 > > I usually put similar lines in rc.local, one for each > sound 'device' I'm not using, as well as boosting the > treble to about 80 and the bass to 60, just for a > little more oomph :) > > Hope this helped, its my first day on these lists :) > > Brett Harris > > http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers > - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message