[alsa-devel] Loud pops from Intel HDA onboard sound, may damage speakers (fwd)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:05:52 +0000 (GMT),
Chris Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > > Sure, you can find them at 
> > > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e74111db9a689dc1fd9808916eebbe51aa447d99.
> > > 
> > > I also hear loud pops during this script's run, but not loud or severe 
> > > enough to trip out my amplifier.
> > 
> > Does this happen with 2.6.38 kernel, too?
> 
> I have not tried yet, do you have reason to think it may have changed 
> since 2.6.32?

Lots of changes since 2.6.32.  I won't be surprised if any of them hits.

> Can I build just the sound driver without replacing the whole kernel?

You can try alsa-driver tarball.


Takashi