Debian Blues
After running Debian Lenny for a while, I’ve got a few things to report. Performance is admirable and is certainly a step up from Ubuntu 8.04 in terms of reponsiveness. However, not all packages behaved well.
To start off, there was a strange click/buzz noise from the hard drive section, which really freaked me out. I thought that it was another hard drive platter failure, but after deep scanning with smartctl, nothing came up. Investigating a bit more found that the sound was accentuated whenever I played audio. Suddenly, it hit me. The case speakers were being recognized and used as the primary device. Apparently, this is a bug in the latest alsa packages in debian and ubuntu that causes snd_pcsp to take priority over the default sound card. The solution was to blacklist the snd_pcsp module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Another issue I ran into (not exclusive to debian) is linux not ejecting my WD Passport external hard drive properly.
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