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Comment 5 for bug 382140

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komputes (komputes) wrote : Re: karmic: high-pitched noise from snd-hda-intel

I was just introduced to this issue in karmic when starting openarena. I can only describe the sound as high pitched bells.

Commenting out the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf has resolved the issue for me:
options snd-hda-intel power_save=10

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Info about what I'm running:
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Linux karmic 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 23:33:50 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Codec: SigmaTel STAC9271D