Hello all.
I’ve been having weird audio issues where audio coming from Display Port would be ‘slower’ (distorted) than the audio coming from the headphones (connected to the headphone jack). I have tried this in both firefox and brave browser via youtube, and confirmed that they both suffer from the same problem.
It is a weird problem because if I boot from the live USB, audio over DP is fine. There is no lag or anything. However, since I installed manjaro onto my ssd, I have issues with sound.
I use R9 270x so I switched from radeon driver to amdgpu, but I don’t know if that is the real problem here.
I have searched for similar problems on the forum, but everything I found and tried did nothing. The sound is still lagging if played from DP but perfectly fine if played over headphones. I don’t think it has anything to do with BIOS either, as I guess it wouldn’t work on live USB then. I tried various changes to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf that I found online, but it didn’t help.
I’m on kernel 5.14.10-1 with pulseaudio v15.0. Pipewire is disabled and pulseaudio is running. I tried to boot to live USB and check the settings via the
pulseaudio --dump-conf
and then compared to the defaults on my PC and they’re the same. There is no difference. Also compared /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and /etc/pulse/default.pa, and they’re identical to the live USB settings.
I’ve been debugging this for hours and I’m becoming frustrated. I know the sound works perfectly on windows, as that’s what I’ve been using up until recently. I really like manjaro and KDE and would like to keep using them, but if I can’t get the sound to work properly, guess I’ll have to search for something else or return to windows.
Below is the output of inxi -Fxz if it is of any use:
System:
Kernel: 5.14.10-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B460M Steel Legend
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.60
date: 08/31/2020
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-10400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Comet Lake rev: 3 cache: L2: 12 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 69629
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800
2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800
11: 800 12: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Curacao XT / Trinidad XT [Radeon R7 370 / R9
270X/370X]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 8800 Series (PITCAIRN DRM 3.42.0
5.14.10-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon
HD 7000 Series]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-1-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: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASRock driver: r8169
v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 174.73 GiB (14.9%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX6000LNP
size: 238.47 GiB temp: 35.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A1
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 233.38 GiB used: 23.68 GiB (10.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu
temp: 35.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 273 Uptime: 26m Memory: 15.56 GiB
used: 2.31 GiB (14.8%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0
Packages: 1297 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 inxi: 3.3.07
Any help is appreciated! If more info is needed, I’d be happy to provide it.