Loud white noise burst when Mint starts up solved

[raveyd]

I am experiencing a loud (and brief) white noise sound when starting up Mint. The noise sounds like a radio not tuned to any station.

The noise lasts about 2 seconds, and it happens after logging in, when the screen is black before Gnome has completely started up. It's not a huge problem provided the volume is set low, but if one of the kids has turned up the volume knob when I wasn't looking, the noise can be truly tooth loosening

Any ideas what could be causing this and what I can do to fix it? I am using Mint felicia at the moment. I also had the same problem with Elyssa, which was the first version of Mint I tried. I never had the problem with other linux distros.

I searched a bit on the web and found this potential fix:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896015
....but it didn't work.

I also checked all my "sounds" settings and played all the system sounds...none of those are responsible as far as I can tell.

My hardware is a Packard Bell i-Extreme H5030 Gold, with a Radeon X300 graphics card, TV tuner (may be something to do with the problem???), ethernet card with D-link ADSL modem plugged in. I have a microphone plugged in to one audio input, and stereo speakers on the outputs.

[Husse]

Do you hear the log in sound?
If not I think this somehow has turned into white noise
You can check it in Control Center > Sounds

[raveyd]

yes i hear the login sound. I also checked all the system sounds (Control Center -> Sounds) and none of them are white noise. i'm wondering if it's something to do with my TV tuner card....but no idea what / how to check.

[Husse]

TV tuner card

Why not - it may not be fully initialised and not receive a signal for a moment and the white noise there propagates somehow

[raveyd]

Bump.

I've still got this problem. any ideas how to solve it?

[Husse]

I'll see if I can find something, but I understand it as you have fully OK sound apart from this so it has low priority
There are so many new posts now......

[hotweiss]

Using

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lspci -v | less

, what sound card is identified?

[raveyd]

Here is the audio device section of the output:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Packard Bell B.V. Device e011
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at ea100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[hotweiss]

Here is the audio device section of the output:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Packard Bell B.V. Device e011
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at ea100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

You can try this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=1

Although I'm kind of leaning towards the tv tuner as the source of your problem...

[raveyd]

That didn't solve it.

What could I do about the TV tuner?

[hotweiss]

What make and model is your tv tuner?

[raveyd]

I did a bit of Web Searching about this.

In the end, i removed pulseaudio in Synaptic, and now the noise has stopped.