Re: [arch-general] Headphone Sound Trouble
On 05/09/2015 01:01 PM, Heiko Becker wrote:
On 05/09/2015 10:01 PM, Heiko Becker wrote:
On 05/09/2015 09:42 PM, Steven Grace wrote:
On 05/09/2015 10:57 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
since some days I am experiencing strange issues with my laptop headphone jack.
When I boot into Windows 8.1, everything works as expected. No problems or cracking sounds.
When I boot my Arch installation, it seems like everything breaks. My headphones randomly produce loud cracking sounds and when I manage to get something out of them, the sound is blurred and sounds disturbed.
I've had issues in the past with audio crackles that were caused by the video driver.
What video driver? Maybe an nvidia one?
Oh and how did you solve it? :D
I had the problem in 2012 with another distribution (not Arch). The problem occurred with the "nouveau" driver for a NVidia graphics card. Switching to the proprietary "nvidia" driver solved the problem. I'm still using the same computer and am now successfully using the "nouveau" driver on Arch, so presumably whatever was causing the problem in 2012 has been fixed.
You should find out what updated before the regression. You can probably check the pacman logs for that.
On 05/10/2015 03:01 AM, Neven Sajko wrote:
You should find out what updated before the regression. You can probably check the pacman logs for that.
Checking which package was updated turned out to be quite hard. But just for simplicity I tried with awesome WM instead of Plasma 5.3 and strangely it works. Can someone help me with this?
On 05/10/2015 09:16 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
But just for simplicity I tried with awesome WM instead of Plasma 5.3 and strangely it works. Can someone help me with this?
So when you run `aplay something.wav` on Awesome it works, but when you run it on KDE it doesn't? (aplay is from the alsa-utils package and .wav files for testing can be found at [1].) [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WAV_files
On 05/10/2015 11:43 AM, Florian Pelz wrote:
So when you run `aplay something.wav` on Awesome it works, but when you run it on KDE it doesn't?
(aplay is from the alsa-utils package and .wav files for testing can be found at [1].)
Ok the issue now occurs in awesome WM too. I also checked with other headphones and there it occurs too.
Does it occur with all applications? For example, I have crackling sound with headphones in all ALSA applications such as unpatched wine, but not in e.g. a patched wine-staging or VLC or most Linux games because they use Pulseaudio.
On Sun, 10 May 2015 20:08:32 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote:
Does it occur with all applications? For example, I have crackling sound with headphones in all ALSA applications such as unpatched wine, but not in e.g. a patched wine-staging or VLC or most Linux games because they use Pulseaudio.
For testing purpose the OP could build a package using pkgname=pulseaudio pkgver=2015.05.10 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Dummy package" arch=('any') provides=('pulseaudio') for a PKGBUILD, install the package, to 'definitively disable' PA. I don't allow PA being installed on my machine. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi pulseaudio Name : pulseaudio Version : 2013.08.18-1 Description : Dummy package Architecture : any URL : None Licenses : None Groups : None Provides : pulseaudio Depends On : None Optional Deps : None Required By : pulseaudio-alsa vice Optional For : fluidsynth phonon-qt4 phonon-qt5 speech-dispatcher Conflicts With : dummy Replaces : None Installed Size : 4.00 KiB Packager : Unknown Packager Build Date : Sun 18 Aug 2013 06:06:40 PM CEST Install Date : Wed 30 Oct 2013 01:09:38 AM CET Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : None Unlikely that ALSA is the culprit, since PA does use ALSA. Regards, Ralf
2015-05-10 20:28 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 10 May 2015 20:08:32 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote:
Does it occur with all applications? For example, I have crackling sound with headphones in all ALSA applications such as unpatched wine, but not in e.g. a patched wine-staging or VLC or most Linux games because they use Pulseaudio.
For testing purpose the OP could build a package using
pkgname=pulseaudio pkgver=2015.05.10 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Dummy package" arch=('any') provides=('pulseaudio')
for a PKGBUILD, install the package, to 'definitively disable' PA.
I don't allow PA being installed on my machine.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi pulseaudio Name : pulseaudio Version : 2013.08.18-1 Description : Dummy package Architecture : any URL : None Licenses : None Groups : None Provides : pulseaudio Depends On : None Optional Deps : None Required By : pulseaudio-alsa vice Optional For : fluidsynth phonon-qt4 phonon-qt5 speech-dispatcher Conflicts With : dummy Replaces : None Installed Size : 4.00 KiB Packager : Unknown Packager Build Date : Sun 18 Aug 2013 06:06:40 PM CEST Install Date : Wed 30 Oct 2013 01:09:38 AM CET Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : None
Unlikely that ALSA is the culprit, since PA does use ALSA.
Regards, Ralf
So in fact I do not have Pulseaudio installed, hence it cannot be the culprit :D Nevertheless, when trying to test based on the instructions given before (aplay for the wav files) I was also able to reproduce the issue in awesome WM too. But when I boot into Windows 8, sound is crystal clear and nothing cracks. Related to the driver stuff: I installed bumblebee some weeks ago and do not remember having used any audio player since then. Could it be the case, that bumblebee or something related is the culprit? Is there an easy way to rule out that it is a hardware bug? Regards, -- Heiko
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Florian Pelz
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Heiko Becker
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Neven Sajko
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Ralf Mardorf
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Steven Grace