foggy reef
blade 16 - AMD AI 9 365 + nvidia RTX 5070ti
yeah i’m on arch linux (KDE) using a family 17h/19h/1ah HD audio controller from AMD (honestly, it’s the only controller that outputs sound compared to the nvidia / radeon one) and using pipewire
the sound pops or crackles after some inactivity which is annoying and worries me that it may damage the speaker
any help is appreciated, thank you!!!
crude summit
Sounds like its going into powersave mode.
I know its a bit of a cookie crumb trail but I highly suspect the audio chip to be put into powersaving as the culprit but... it might be something else, luckily you can test those fix on the fly.
If you get perm issue even with sudo try to log as root since youre messing with hardware directly sudo -i
I suggest reading carefuly. Also your chip might be different. You may have to adapt this. Chatbots can somewhat help find the correct sound controller for your board but still be careful, sometimes they tend to be overzealous and tell dangerous commands so refer to the links I sent for commands and adapt to them instead. Specially before making permanent changes.
Good luck, these kind of audio issues sucks to troubleshoot.
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I know its a bit of a cookie crumb trail but I highly suspect the audio chip to ...
thank you, but when i sudo nano that file or directory, it says “file not found” or “created new file” because it didn’t exist
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crude summit
You might have a realtek controller instead of intel
Im not on my machine so its a bit hard to figure out on top of my head.
Gimme a sec. I can perhaps fetch a bit of info
Might be something like this for realtek
Im sorry if this is very cryptic but its the only thing I can figure out.
foggy reef
You might have a realtek controller instead of intel
yeah exactly it is a realtek controller — not an intel, since the processor is an AMD
foggy reef
Im sorry if this is very cryptic but its the only thing I can figure out.
yeah no for sure i appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help me. any help is appreciated!
crude summit
yeah no for sure i appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help me. an...
This is pretty hit or miss, Ive seen people say that it worked, for me personally on 4 different hardware I had no chance. 
foggy reef
might just go back to fedora with gnome this shit is too much 😭✌️ least i can say i installed arch on my laptop 😭
foggy reef
This is pretty hit or miss, Ive seen people say that it worked, for me personall...
if you don’t mind me asking —what was the solution? finding the realtek controller and doing what?
setting the value to zero for the power save on the realtek controller like on the screenshot you sent?
crude summit
Yeah
this is a non-permanent change.
so you can test on the fly.
unsure if restarting pipewire is needed
rebooting will revert this.
foggy reef
rebooting will revert this.
IT REVERTS IT???
SO EVERY REBOOT RESTARTS THE SOUND POPPING???