[Pc_Support] White noise from speakers?

[Wise Linux User Patrick]

On Sunday 07 August 2005 05:25 pm, Damien McKenna wrote:
> If I've got my PC speakers turned on, no audio playing but I'm hearing
> white noise, is that the soundcard or the speakers at fault?

Do you have a TV or video capture card, or, an FM Radio card?

I found out that sometimes, when I minimize a window that was playing sounds, 
they stop, but the amp remains on, making some white noise in the speakers!

Check to see if for instance, you have one application using ALSA sound, while 
another tries to use another sound program!

The white noise is usually, in my experience, from some program that I opened, 
and then shut down, but, didn't correctly stop the sound server that had been 
used for that program.
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