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Getting some weired ticking noise in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Even if speakers are mute.

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I just upgraded my HP dv2214tu notebook from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. I am getting some weired ticking noise in every 12 seconds. Whenever I try to open any thing, some one pings me on chat or I increase volume got very loud ticking noise. If I connect headphone to jack I get this noise from main speakers as well. If any music player is playing any sound than I don't get any noise but when music playing stops it starts same noise. If I mute volume than too got same noise.
I upgraded my alsa drivers as well but problem still exists. I didn't have this problem in 9.04.
I am newbie to Ubuntu. Please Help....

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#1

Perhaps your harddrive? How "old" is this drive?
sometimes this click is indeed from the harddisk. (acer notebooks) When your sure bout that
terminal: sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
enter password (you don't see the pass) again enter.

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Vicenç Juan Tomàs (vtomasr5) said : 		#2

Hello, try this:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

At the end of the file you will find this:
    options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N

You have to leave the line like this:
    options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N

Bye

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Ryan Kitty (gothickitty93) said : 		#3

it is probably your harddrive. I have the same issue. My harddrive in my laptop (WD 160GB Scorpio) makes a ticking noise that is in sync with everything that I do on the screen.

Leoquant: Will the terminal command fix this minor issue for me?

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#4

Ryan it fixed my harddisk ticking on my acer laptop, it has everything to do with the rude way the hardware (harddisk) is managed.( energy saving management)
And it is absolutly no good for the harddisk.

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Dev (devendra1010) said : 		#5

Thanks all for reply.I tried all the things you people advised. But my problem is not resolved.
My hard disk is new and it doesn't seems that the noise is coming from hard disk. It is coming from speakers. It sounds like huge -c'hittt-- .
My laptop is dual boot and I don't have any sound problem while using Vista. I didn't have this problem with Ubuntu 9.04.

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suniyo (suniyo) said : 		#6

It is ture in my case also, I do get this sound and it was abscent in 9.04 and on XP. Dual boot. It is there when I am logged in to Karmic koala.

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sveo (s-iscrov) said : 		#7

I also have exactly the same problem. With Ubuntu 9.4 it was working perfectly. Do you have some solution?

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sveo (s-iscrov) said : 		#8

The problem seemes to vanish if the line

options snd-hda-intel power_save=10

is commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

good luck!

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