After bricking my big machine with a new power supply, I sent my MB to
ASUS to check it out, just for ducks. Got it back and with a power
supply that doesn't have a smoke jinn in it, it's all back up and
running, except for my multichannel analog sound. I'm getting bleeps and
buzzing especially when I rotate the mouse wheel. This maddening,
especially after curing my ills with almixer/pavucontrol advice.


My USB head phones work fine.

So, I removed pulseaudio and still no joy. I'm running 11.10, 64bit
although when I did a system clean up there was a bunch of 32bit files
removed. I have no clue how they got there. I sure don't want to have to
do another re-install. Not if I don't have to.


<swears like drunken sailor> I'm peeved. Ric

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On 02/27/2012 06:03 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
After bricking my big machine with a new power supply, I sent my MB to
ASUS to check it out, just for ducks. Got it back and with a power
supply that doesn't have a smoke jinn in it, it's all back up and
running, except for my multichannel analog sound. I'm getting bleeps
and buzzing especially when I rotate the mouse wheel. This maddening,
especially after curing my ills with almixer/pavucontrol advice.


My USB head phones work fine.

So, I removed pulseaudio and still no joy. I'm running 11.10, 64bit
although when I did a system clean up there was a bunch of 32bit files
removed. I have no clue how they got there. I sure don't want to have
to do another re-install. Not if I don't have to.


<swears like drunken sailor> I'm peeved. Ric



You're getting noise on your audio from electronic interference. I'm
not sure what you can do there besides install a good quality discrete
audio card. Still, this is a hardware problem, not a software one.



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On 02/27/2012 06:17 PM, Rashkae wrote:



You're getting noise on your audio from electronic interference. I'm
not sure what you can do there besides install a good quality discrete
audio card. Still, this is a hardware problem, not a software one.


PS: It might be worthwhile, however, in case I'm wrong, to use alsamixer
and mute your inputs (Line-in and or Microphone.). It's possible your
sound system could be picking up the noise on those then amplifying it.





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On 02/27/2012 06:17 PM, Rashkae wrote:

On 02/27/2012 06:03 PM, Ric Moore wrote:

After bricking my big machine with a new power supply, I sent my MB to
ASUS to check it out, just for ducks. Got it back and with a power
supply that doesn't have a smoke jinn in it, it's all back up and
running, except for my multichannel analog sound. I'm getting bleeps
and buzzing especially when I rotate the mouse wheel. This maddening,
especially after curing my ills with almixer/pavucontrol advice.

My USB head phones work fine.

So, I removed pulseaudio and still no joy. I'm running 11.10, 64bit
although when I did a system clean up there was a bunch of 32bit files
removed. I have no clue how they got there. I sure don't want to have
to do another re-install. Not if I don't have to.

<swears like drunken sailor> I'm peeved. Ric



You're getting noise on your audio from electronic interference. I'm not
sure what you can do there besides install a good quality discrete audio
card. Still, this is a hardware problem, not a software one.


That's my thinking too, and they are cheap enough nowadays. Thanks. Ric


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On 02/27/2012 06:22 PM, Rashkae wrote:

On 02/27/2012 06:17 PM, Rashkae wrote:



You're getting noise on your audio from electronic interference. I'm
not sure what you can do there besides install a good quality discrete
audio card. Still, this is a hardware problem, not a software one.


PS: It might be worthwhile, however, in case I'm wrong, to use alsamixer
and mute your inputs (Line-in and or Microphone.). It's possible your
sound system could be picking up the noise on those then amplifying it.


The problem is that I'm getting nothing at all on playback. My surround
system is silent during boot, then just as it starts to boot, the
speakers start to make obscene noises. Replacing that system with a pci
sound card should do the trick. I unplugged the USB mike with mike and
that didn't reduce the sound. Thanks! Ric




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On 02/27/2012 08:32 PM, Ric Moore wrote:

On 02/27/2012 06:22 PM, Rashkae wrote:




The problem is that I'm getting nothing at all on playback. My
surround system is silent during boot, then just as it starts to boot,
the speakers start to make obscene noises. Replacing that system with
a pci sound card should do the trick. I unplugged the USB mike with
mike and that didn't reduce the sound. Thanks! Ric




Oh, I misunderstood the problem report. I thought you were getting
buzzing noise overtop of the sound that should be coming out. True that
a PCI card might fix you right up, but my 'diagnosis' goes right out the
window.


At the very least, it would be worthwhile to boot a live cd and see if
sound on a pristine environment works or not.




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On 02/27/2012 08:44 PM, Rashkae wrote:

On 02/27/2012 08:32 PM, Ric Moore wrote:

On 02/27/2012 06:22 PM, Rashkae wrote:




The problem is that I'm getting nothing at all on playback. My
surround system is silent during boot, then just as it starts to boot,
the speakers start to make obscene noises. Replacing that system with
a pci sound card should do the trick. I unplugged the USB mike with
mike and that didn't reduce the sound. Thanks! Ric



Oh, I misunderstood the problem report. I thought you were getting
buzzing noise overtop of the sound that should be coming out. True that
a PCI card might fix you right up, but my 'diagnosis' goes right out the
window.

At the very least, it would be worthwhile to boot a live cd and see if
sound on a pristine environment works or not.


When I move the scrollwheel on the USB mouse it buzzes louder! It starts
buzzing as soon as Linux starts to boot. Nothing seems to relieve it.
I've changed the card settings in pavucontrol, but in alsamixer there is
no "channels" setting, like is usually on the right side <channels 6>
<channels 8> ...that part is gone. Beats the heck out of me. I had zero
problems until the new power supply blew up on install. Got a different
power supply, everything works except sound. The PS failure DID take out
the hard drive, but I replaced it's pc board for $35 and it works like a
charm. So, there was some spare electricity flying around inside. I hate
seeing good smoke come from places it is supposed to remain in,
especially so in a power supply!

Thanks I'll give the boot live CD a whirl and get back. Ric




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On 02/27/2012 08:44 PM, Rashkae wrote:


At the very least, it would be worthwhile to boot a live cd and see if
sound on a pristine environment works or not.



Wonderful idea! Namaskar! I was in the thick of it and didn't think to
do that.


But, it just made the same whines and blooping noises it made before.
Ergo, scratch one onboard audio setup. At least the USB functions well,
mouse and headset works just peachy. What I should do is send the MB
back to ASUS, under warranty and let them check out ALL of the back
panel plugins. Maybe some day I'll get fancier stuff and need them all
working. (more toys!) Thanks again. Ric




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On 28/02/12 16:02, Ric Moore wrote:

On 02/27/2012 08:44 PM, Rashkae wrote:


At the very least, it would be worthwhile to boot a live cd and see if
sound on a pristine environment works or not.



Wonderful idea! Namaskar! I was in the thick of it and didn't think to
do that.


But, it just made the same whines and blooping noises it made before.
Ergo, scratch one onboard audio setup. At least the USB functions
well, mouse and headset works just peachy. What I should do is send
the MB back to ASUS, under warranty and let them check out ALL of the
back panel plugins. Maybe some day I'll get fancier stuff and need
them all working. (more toys!) Thanks again. Ric



I know that you would have done all this already, but just take a step
back and work thru from start to finish what you may have forgotten to
do to get into this sound "mess".


Have you set in your BIOS the correct source for your audio? Have you
selected the correct source for your audio in alsamixer? And in
alsamixer you don't have a clash between channels which should be
muted/disabled and those which should be enabled (I got some HORRIBLE
sounds when I had a couple of incompatible channels enabled)? I know
that you have stated that you have a 5-1 system which means that you
would normally have an external power source for your speakers - is
there a clash in alsamixer re this (another person was surprised when I
told him that in alsa one has to make sure that some channel is enabled
while another has to be disabled otherwise nothing works)? This new PSU,
is it really OK: perhaps it has a severe line-noise problem? (BTW, you
aren't having an ground/earth-loop problem are you?)


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On 02/28/2012 01:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 28/02/12 16:02, Ric Moore wrote:

On 02/27/2012 08:44 PM, Rashkae wrote:


At the very least, it would be worthwhile to boot a live cd and see if
sound on a pristine environment works or not.



Wonderful idea! Namaskar! I was in the thick of it and didn't think to
do that.

But, it just made the same whines and blooping noises it made before.
Ergo, scratch one onboard audio setup. At least the USB functions
well, mouse and headset works just peachy. What I should do is send
the MB back to ASUS, under warranty and let them check out ALL of the
back panel plugins. Maybe some day I'll get fancier stuff and need
them all working. (more toys!) Thanks again. Ric



I know that you would have done all this already, but just take a step
back and work thru from start to finish what you may have forgotten to
do to get into this sound "mess".

Have you set in your BIOS the correct source for your audio? Have you
selected the correct source for your audio in alsamixer? And in
alsamixer you don't have a clash between channels which should be
muted/disabled and those which should be enabled (I got some HORRIBLE
sounds when I had a couple of incompatible channels enabled)? I know
that you have stated that you have a 5-1 system which means that you
would normally have an external power source for your speakers - is
there a clash in alsamixer re this (another person was surprised when I
told him that in alsa one has to make sure that some channel is enabled
while another has to be disabled otherwise nothing works)? This new PSU,
is it really OK: perhaps it has a severe line-noise problem? (BTW, you
aren't having an ground/earth-loop problem are you?)


I went through every conceivable iteration of setups... nothing worked
at all. I tried using headphones and plain Jane stereo, you name it. I
think it's blown up. The first power supply blowup took out a hard
drive, so it's not impossible it took out the sound too. I've already
have a sound card on the way. It's got to be hardware. Even running the
live CD, I got nothing but buzzing. It's always been a piece of cake to
set up. So, I know it's hosed. I tested the speaker system separately
and it's just fine. <sighs> Ric




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