[ltp] T42 started making popping sounds after a sound plays

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:44:09 -0300


On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, David Griffith wrote:
> In the past few days my Thinkpad T42 has started emitting a popping
> sound from the speakers one second after a sound finishes playing.
> Would someone please point me in the right direction for diagnosing
> this problem?  I'm running Wheezy.

Disable AC97 power saving in ALSA.  Or set it to a large value (e.g. 10s).

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