Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: The famous "Jack Hum" (Can't record and desparate)

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 18:08:46 EET

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 17:04 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> > Yes, from talking to someone who works on the assembly line in Dell
> > here in Limerick, they seem to have totally different manufacturing
> > standards, tolerances, etc, for the high-end laptops and for the cheap
> > ones.
>
> I must own an inspironingly cheap one. Say so there is absolutely no
> software way to get rid of the singing capacitor? That's pretty much
> what I assume it to be. Singing capacitor caused by the interrupts at
> the end of each buffering cycle. I only have a vague idea what that
> means, but maybe you kernel people can help. Please?

No, there's no possible software fix for this hardware problem.

Lee
Received on Mon Nov 13 20:15:03 2006

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