I found a very strange bug in Lubuntu 13.10. When I open alsamixer and unmute
the microphone and increase its volume, my speakers start to constantly give
some noise. When I enable microphone boost, the noise gets even louder. When I
mute microphone, the noise disappers.The speaker noise happens with and without
microphone plugged. Please note that this is noise from speakers and has
nothing to do with recording noise. The speaker noise starts just when I boot
Lubuntu and it is present all the time after, even if I'm not logged in (just
sitting on the login screen after boot is enough to hear the noise which is
audible all the time when Lubuntu is working).I tested it on different PCs with
different soundcards - Realtek ALC 892, Audigy 1 Gold, Sound Blaster and the
noise appeared on every PC.The workaround I found is installing PulseAudio and
pavucontrol, then muting microphone in alsamixer and then enabling microphone
in pavucontrol, after that when I use PulseAudio for audio output and input
there is no noise in speakers, so PulseAudio somehow fixes it.Is it a known bug
in ALSA? Maybe it's a bug in how Lubuntu uses ALSA? Maybe it's a bug in
alsamixer and not ALSA? I have no idea where I should report it. I really want
to get it fixed as it is very annoying in my favourite distro. And I have no
clue what and where I should report.I don't want to use PulseAudio workaround
as PulseAudio still has some outstanding issues in Wine in 2014 and I think the
bug in ALSA should be fixed as Lubuntu is just ALSA-only distro and probably it
will stay that way. And well, ALSA should be reliable with microphone input.Of
course, despite the noise, sound works allright, I can listen to the music or
record using the microphone etc. It's just the noise is "added" to speakers all
the time when microphone is unmuted.Thanks!
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