Ubuntu
alsa-driver package

Loud sound on high cpu usage (Macbook ICH7)

Bug #179887 reported by Kristian Klette
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

My Macbook makes a loud noise through its speakers (or the connected ones, if present) if a cpu spike occurs.

 *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel

klette@attraction:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42 2007 UTC).

klette@attraction:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.24-2-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.2.3 20071210 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-4ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 17:36:12 GMT 2007

Let me know if you need more info.

btw, it happens regardless of which application I use to play the sound/music.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.
Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

Please take a look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611345 . There are some useful information that you'll need.

Thank you for your time!

Changed in alsa-driver:
assignee: nobody → iuli
status: New → Incomplete
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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

Please use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems instead of that one I gave you in my previous comment.

Thank you.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

Thank you.

Changed in alsa-driver:
assignee: iuli → nobody
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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