[PlanetCCRMA] Pulse and ice 1712

Wed Jul 1 14:27:42 PDT 2009

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:55 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:51 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:10 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:18:06PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > 
> > > > No sound output.  If I run alsamicer I just get the one pulseaudio
> > > > fader.  Can anyone tell me how to completely remove pulse from the
> > > > equation?  Also, what would be the best way to try to debug this?  I've
> > > > spent a couple of weeks on this already.  I'd really like to get it
> > > > resolved.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Have you tried, as root, removing the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package:
> > > 
> > > 	yum -remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> > > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > 	rpm -e alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> > 
> >     That helped a bit.  Now I don't have the pulse stuff going on but
> > the sound is still seriously distorted unless I set to 96K.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
>     Another possible clue.  When watching envy24control, all of the
> noise is coming in on the odd channels 1, 3, 5, and 7.

It regretfully sounds like a kernel-level alsa driver issue...
-- Fernando