Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:38:30 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will installing a separate sound card work? Message-ID: <20160911193830.1ecd139d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <bb5185be-9518-2a23-3fe5-02978aa3e5a2@netfence.it> References: <VI1PR02MB0974245A63E0A5938C14B131C2FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20160910201746.e62bd384.freebsd@edvax.de> <VI1PR02MB09746666CAC50D3EB42D2698F6FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <bb5185be-9518-2a23-3fe5-02978aa3e5a2@netfence.it>
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:08:03 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > 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. This should be checked with the "mixer" command - and yes, it is actually possible that an "open input" causes the kind of sound initially described. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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