Guest xinelo Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 Hi. I apologize as there may be another topic on this matter but it wasn't obvious how to spot it (I tried words like annoying sound, high-pitched sound, shrill sound, etc. but I got no relevant results -- sound, on the other hand, was far too general a term). Well, the problem is as follows: I've tried and installed Mandrake10.1-0-Official-DownloadCD1.i586 in my Dell Inspiron 8500. The installation runs well and when it's done, it asks me to reboot, which I do, but when it's rebooting, the laptop all of a sudden makes a sound as described in the topic title. It's really unbearable and I have to turn off the computer. I can't stand it and, on the other, I'm afraid it damages the speakers. Has anyone had this same problem with this new release? Is there something I can do? Thanks a lot. Cheers, xinelo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 It's probably some channel that's interfering with some other channel. Open a mixer (kmix, alsamixergui etc etc) and experiment with the settings. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 (edited) Cover the mic with your finger until you can turn it off with a mixer. This is what you get when people are complaining that all channels are muted, which was the standard ALSA behaviour - they now enable all channels. Edited September 27, 2004 by aRTee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xinelo Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Thanks aRTee and devries for your replies. I'll try your suggestions. I don't know how to open that mixer but I'll do some research ;) Thanks again. Xinelo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 "mixer" is the, possibly not great, standard linux name for volume control tools. They live under the "multimedia" entry in the program menu. You need to mute the microphone input. Some laptops have extremely sensitive microphones that cause this problem if the microphone input is set to a level above, like, 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 oh, and it would be helpful if you could run the command "lspcidrake -v" as root and also "lsmod | grep snd", and then create a bug on the Mandrake bug tracker with a description of the problem and both outputs included. Then the default levels for your sound chip can be adjusted so the problem doesn't happen to others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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