buzzing noise from speakers

[jot-87]

Hi! I'm experiencing problems with my two speakers. They give a strange buzzing sound when they play an audio file. When no sound is played, there is no buzzing and they work perfectly with my CD player, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the speakers. The volume of the buzzing sound is the same all the time, it doesn't matter if the sound from the audio file is loud of faint.

[JohnT]

Take them outside and remove the back covering carefully, standback and release the bee's.:p
Or change your music genre, as they dont like your style


What Desktop are you using? KDE, Gnome.......

[jot-87]

:)
I'm using KDE.

[mdwatts]

Have you tried adjusting the slide controls in the sound mixers such as Kmix or Aumix?

[DMR]

In addition:

-Does this happen when you play any type of sound (CD audio, system sound, mp3, wav, etc.)?

- Does it happen regardless of the multimedia application you're using?

[jot-87]

Hi! I've tried playing around with Aumix and KAudioCreator but havn't managed to get rid of the buzzing sound. I get the same sound in Naotun, Kaboodle and XMMS. Ive tried with bot an MP3 file and an audoi stream (MP3) just to make sure it wan't the MP3 file that bad.

Audio CD's however work fine.

(The equalizer in XMMS was/is OFF, sp that should not be the probelm.)

[jot-87]

I still havn't been able to get rid of the buzzing sound. If anybody has any idea of what could be wrong, please help me.

Also, I will try to watch my spelling in the future...

The sound is perfect when I play Audio CDs, but with all other audio you hear an irritating buzzing sound.

[jme]

If the buzzing sound is only happening when you play CD's but other system sounds create the sound have you considered that it may be a problem with your soundcard rather than the speakers?

Have you tried the speakers on another computer?

Just a thought! ;)

Jme

[Satanic Atheist]

Sounds like interference with the soundcard. Can you tell us if it's an on-board sound card or an expansion slot card? If it's the latter, you should mount it as far away from anything else.

Remember that Audio CDs are played through the MU401 cable direct to the sound card and do not utilise any special hardware.

Have you tried other speakers?

Or (as JohnT suggested) and exterminator?

James

[jot-87]

Of course, pretty stupid of me to not think of that; the problem can't be in the speakers. My sound card is an on-board sound card. It has worked well before, but now it doesn't (except for the adudio CDs), probably since after the (re)installation.

I still havn't solved the problem though, I'd like some ideas on what to try. I've tried looking at the sound card drivers etc, but I've found nothing (but I'm new to Linux so it' slikeley that there is something anyway). My card is called VT8233 [AC92 Audio Controller] and it's using module Modul: ?snd-via82xx. It (Mandrakes Control Panel) also says: "Alternative drivers: ?via82cxxx_audio" and a few other things that I can post if it is nessecary.

[Satanic Atheist]

Of course, pretty stupid of me to not think of that; the problem can't be in the speakers.
My sarcasm detector's going off the scale.

If the speakers worked in Windows but now they buzz, it's looking like a driver problem. Pure and simple.

Drivers are not normally required for audio CDs because of the way the audio stream is generated (not across the bus).

That driver that's listed is obviously looking a tad ropey and chances are you don't have the right one installed, and the system went for the "best-fit" driver.

Check this (http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/VIA_VT8233_sound_with_Red_Hat_Linux.html) out for information on that chipset.

If you find newer drivers, install the kernel source and then build the module (simple ./configure etc will do it).

Using an Insmod will load the new driver. To make sure it's always used and not the other, you can alias it in the modules.conf file.

Good luck,

James

[jot-87]

Thanks! I'm sorry for my stupidity. I don't knwo what I was thinking about.
By the way, the soundcard has worked with Mandrake 9.1 before, so I think I'l try to solve it without installing new drivers and modules and stuff. I managed to ruin X11 by testing MSN chat programs, and now that I have important data on my computer I don't want to risk not being able to access my data...

Thanks for you link, it'll come in handy if I don't manage to fix the problem with what I already have.

//Josef :)