laptop noise (was Re: [linux-audio-user] intel core 2 duo and amd turion 64x2)

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:56:41PM +0300, Dmitry Baikov wrote:
> On 3/10/07, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric at zhevny.com> wrote:
> >Is there anything I can try to do to get rid of the noise when plugged
> >into power?
> Possibly it's a ground loop.
> Sometimes, reversing power plug (i.e. swapping zero and phase pins) of
> the offending device (in your case either one monitor or the laptop)
> helps.

Hmm ... I'm not all that knowledgeable about electricity, but I thought
ground loops happened when you had two different paths to ground. i.e.
... devices connected to 2 different circuits. But, again, I don't
really know what I'm saying here.

-Eric Rz.