I can confirm the problem (both the whine and the pop) and the fix with the following hardware:
aplay -l: card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog
lspci: 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
I can confirm the problem (both the whine and the pop) and the fix with the following hardware:
aplay -l:
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog
lspci:
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)