Confirm this on a Thinkpad T41 with "Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)" audio device.
Besides the awful static noise I notice that 'alsamixer' has only 3 channels instead of the usual set: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'BaseFRQ',0 Capabilities: penum Items: '18643' '37286' Item0: '18643' -- linux-image-2.6.27 Intel 82801 audio noisy playback https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264784 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs