When playing sound through external speakers that are connected to a monitor the sound is really distorted.
But the issue goes away while pavucontrol is open. When pavucontrol is closed the audio is distorted again immediately.
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System:
Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
root=UUID=04f546ec-2fa6-4d0d-a0fa-946b14c80e61 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 40.5 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 15 9570 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0JVFJ2 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.17.1
date: 07/09/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 81.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 81.6/97.0 Wh (84.1%)
volts: 12.6 min: 11.4 model: SMP DELL GPM0365 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Full
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10)
microcode: EA cache: L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 36812
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 801
4: 800 5: 859 6: 822 7: 900 8: 859
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: nvidia
v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c8d class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-12:6 chip-ID: 0bda:5657 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Realtek USB Audio type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
bus-ID: 1-5.3.4:10 chip-ID: 0bda:402e class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Rivet Networks driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 3b:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
bus-ID: 4-1.4:4 chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enp58s0u1u4 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 0cf3:e300 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 49.4 GiB (5.3%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7 temp: 28.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%) used: 49.4 GiB (5.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 300 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2523 fan-2: 2523
Info:
Processes: 272 Uptime: 2h 26m wakeups: 4 Memory: 7.4 GiB
used: 3.07 GiB (41.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1188 pacman: 1168 lib: 299 flatpak: 12 snap: 8
Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.06