Douglas W     russianeaster(throwawayaddress)(at)hotmail(dot)com
Thursday, 11 December 2003  
 
Santa Cruz cs46xx driver:
There is a known problem with random metallic distortion during recording and playback:
(SEE: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-d [...] 9687.html)
 
Antidotal Fixes:
Recording: Open alsamixer and toggle Capture on and off with the [space bar].
Playback: Open alsamixer and toggle ADC and DAC levels ([0] for off,  
     [PgUp] for incremental increases)
Playback: Open alsamixer and togge External on and off with [M].
XMMS/General: stop and start playback (not pause) OR close and reopen application.
 
Last Option: reload modules
    1) Close or kill all applications using sound (e.g. XMMS, aRts, volume controls).
    2) # modprobe -r cs46xx
    3) # modprobe cs46xx
    (snd-cs46xx may be the correct name, esp. in 2.4.x kernels.)
    (Debian users may use # /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload)
    (NOTE: Monolithic kernels will require a computer reboot.)