[arch-general] Headphone Sound Trouble

[Steven Grace]

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.