Have you checked in your system mixer to make sure that you don't have a feed
back loop present. If you hac a microphone on your computer set to record and
then turn the speakers up real loud it will feedback which sounds like screeching
or howling.

Frank Mogavero

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:58 , David Mangani <dmangani@adelphia.net> sent:

>Hi all. I seem to have continuing trouble with sound (Alsa) On my Debian 
>Sarge(testing) system. Alsa seems to load but then ends up in 
>/etc/hotplug/blacklist along with my emu10k1 soundblaster driver. I get 
>some kind of screaching sound though. Since alsa is blacklisted and I 
>still get noise, I'm assuming that another sound module might be loading 
>first, maybe oss? I need to disable whatever is screaching and get ALSA 
>emu10k1 loaded properly. I have run debians "discover" package. It seems 
>to correctly identify and configure my soundcard for ALSA. I also have 
>run alsaconf several time. Alsa config report all okay, alsa is ready to 
>run.... enjoy. Do I need to maybe put the oss driver into the blacklist 
>manually? Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>Thanks
>Dave
>
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