When sound is playing and I change the volume slider, the audio starts crackling.
I use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 sound card.
Loading ~/.config/pulse/default.pa or module-udev-detect does not fix the issue.
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Hi @jolene, and welcome!
While I doubt I’ll be of much assistance, seeing as I don’t really use audio, I know that we don’t know anything about your system, and we need to know more. To that end, please see:
Here you go:
System:
Kernel: 5.15.21-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=093d9f4c-0536-4f51-abf7-738ec1b97290 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 intel_iommu=on
rd.driver.pre=vfio-pci kvm.ignore_msrs=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Acer model: Predator PO3-600 v: V:1.1
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: R01-B2
date: 04/16/2019
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.54 GiB used: 3.56 GiB (22.9%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xD (13) microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 512 KiB
desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 8x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB
desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 bogomips: 48016
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc
cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms
est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt
invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx
msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs
pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep
smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A]
vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: nvidia v: 510.47.03
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f08
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
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: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio
vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i4 USB type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 1-11:8 chip-ID: 1235:8200 class-ID: 0103
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.21-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:10 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 18.17 GiB (0.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1014 size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 20110000 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABD200
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: JT00 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 237.58 GiB size: 232.79 GiB (97.98%)
used: 18.11 GiB (7.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
label: N/A uuid: 093d9f4c-0536-4f51-abf7-738ec1b97290
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 59.9 MiB (62.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: ESP uuid: 4AB9-CE58
ID-3: /home/<filter>/GoogleDrive raw-size: N/A size: 15 GiB
used: 35.9 MiB (0.2%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: gdrive:
ID-4: /home/<filter>/OneDrive raw-size: N/A size: 1024 GiB
used: 21.55 GiB (2.1%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: odrive:
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 237.91 GiB fs: ntfs label: Acer
uuid: CEFEBA55FEBA3595
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 1024 MiB fs: ntfs
label: Recovery uuid: 041ABAA71ABA9560
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 350 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: F5A9-2E9B
ID-5: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: Kirb
uuid: 18DEF63ADEF60FAC
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 1-1.1:4 info: Wacom Cintiq 16 HUB ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 2mA chip-ID: 056a:0395 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.1.1:7 info: Wacom DTK-1660 [Cintiq 16] type: HID
driver: usbhid,wacom interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 056a:0390 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-1.1.2:9 info: Future Devices FT232H Single HS USB-UART/FIFO IC
type: <vendor specific> driver: ftdi_sio,gpio_stub_drv interfaces: 1
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0403:6014 class-ID: 0000
Device-3: 1-1.3:6 info: SiGma Micro USB Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 1c4f:0043 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-2:3 info: Pixart Imaging Optical Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2510 class-ID: 0301
Device-5: 1-4:5 info: Razer USA BlackWidow Ultimate 2013
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:011a class-ID: 0300
Device-6: 1-11:8 info: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i4 USB type: Audio
driver: snd-usb-audio interfaces: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 1235:8200 class-ID: 0103
Device-7: 1-14:10 info: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-6:2 info: Verbatim Portable Harddrive type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
chip-ID: 18a5:0237 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C pch: 58.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 37%
Info:
Processes: 270 Uptime: 37m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1285 pacman: 1281 lib: 345
flatpak: 4 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.12
I fixed it by removing pulseaudio and installing pipewire! Thanks for the quick reply 
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I think this is generally good advice. Pipewire is pretty good and I recommend it over PulseAudio.
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