Hello, this is the second time I’m installing manjaro and am having this issue. When I start playing any sound (youtube for example) there is a big cracking noise and then static. I can hear the sound but there is a constant noise over it. After I stop the video/music the noise stops after 2-3 seconds. From what I saw it seems to only happen on headphones, the laptop speaker doesnt produce this noise. Also, I have dual boot with windows and this issue only happens on Manjaro.
I will list some info, hopefully it will help.
uname -a
Linux alexban011 5.14.10-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 7 06:43:34 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
inxi -F
System: Host: alexban011 Kernel: 5.14.10-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: G551VW v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G551VW v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: G551VW.303
date: 04/19/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 6.6 Wh (70.2%) condition: 9.4/56.2 Wh (16.7%) volts: 10.8 min: 10.8
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 6 MiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01
Device-3: Chicony HD WebCam (Asus N-series) type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01
Audio: Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Trust GXT 232 Microphone type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 18:5e:0f:91:e4:b1
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp3s0f1 state: down mac: 08:62:66:b9:0c:6b
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 946.16 GiB used: 123.67 GiB (13.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 14.65 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 168.62 GiB used: 110.87 GiB (65.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 32.4 MiB (33.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2100
Info: Processes: 274 Uptime: 1h 26m Memory: 15.5 GiB used: 4.01 GiB (25.9%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.08
pacmd list-sinks
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 0
name: <alsa_output.0.analog-stereo>
driver: <module-alsa-sink.c>
flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: SUSPENDED
suspend cause: IDLE
priority: 9039
volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 0.00 ms
max request: 0 KiB
max rewind: 0 KiB
monitor source: 0
sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 0
linked by: 1
configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 1837.50 ms
module: 6
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC668 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC668 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xdf328000 irq 132"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "a170"
device.product.name = "100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 122
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: de000000-df0fffff [size=17M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000d1ffffff [size=288M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 131
Memory at dd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 07)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at df320000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 201f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127
Memory at df310000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Thermal Subsystem (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at df338000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at df337000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at df336000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 128
Memory at df335000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation HM170/QM170 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 125
Memory at df330000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Memory at df334000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
Memory at df333000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
Memory behind bridge: df200000-df2fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 124
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: df100000-df1fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at df32c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 132
Memory at df328000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at df300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at df332000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1d3d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 133
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at df000000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 59)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 129
Memory at df200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 202f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 126
Memory at df115000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at df100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 200f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at df114000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at df110000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
Folder at /etc/modprobe.d only contains mhwd-gpu.conf
What I tried so far:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/hearing-a-lot-of-bad-noise-when-no-audio-is-playing-on-battery/37367/3
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/cracking-sound-from-audio/44452
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/constant-crackling-noise-from-microphone-couldnt-solve-despite-many-similar-topics/71926/10
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/solved-crackling-sound/113943
EDIT: I have tested 2 headphones and the same thing happens with both and since windows 10 doesnt have this issue it most likely is not a hardware issue. The only thing I have seen but haven’t tested is to change my kernel to 4.19 (someone said this issue doesnt appear there but 4.19 is much older than 5.10, which I have, and I hope I can get this fixed without changing my kernel to such an old version.