From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 11 17:08:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3354BD61D4 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:08:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp206.alice.it (smtp206.alice.it [82.57.200.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3070BF6F for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:08:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (62.211.162.64) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 57C6A04502497F39; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:08:04 +0200 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u8BH83ho046645; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:08:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.ventu: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Will installing a separate sound card work? To: Manish Jain References: <20160910201746.e62bd384.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:08:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:08:14 -0000 On 09/10/16 20:51, Manish Jain wrote: > Nice to hear from you. I knew I could always count on your reply : - ) > > The onboard sound would have been great had it not been for that hiss > that comes along. The hiss is loud enough to be a real game-spoiler. I > plugged in my headphones in place of the speakers, and the hiss is > present on the headphones too. So it had to be a problem with the > onboard chip or the driver. I eliminated the driver by installing > Windows XP, and the hiss is present in WMP playback too. So the only > option now is to install a separate sound card. I don't mind that, as > long as the card can be made to work with FreeBSD 10.x/11. Just a shot in the dark: did you silence everything through the mixer? E.g. is line-in at 0? CD? Try and see if that hiss comes from the channel you are really trying to hear. I know, this is not likely, but costs nothing, so it's worth trying. bye av.