https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219282 Bug ID: 1219282 Summary: Distorted sound in some applications, apparently occurring under system heavier load Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: x86-64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Sound Assignee: tiwai@suse.com Reporter: bartoletti.stefano@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Target Milestone: --- Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created attachment 872253 --> https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=872253&action=edit sound devices I'm experiencing some annoying sound problems, that are occurring only during some circumstances (apparently under heavier system load, but I don't know if this is a factor), and appeared starting from about a month ago (end of December 2023). Before that, everything was working normally. I'm running a fully updated tumbleweed, and I can notice this problem mainly when running games under Wine. Basically, the game starts fine, and after a while (there is not a fixed time), the audio starts crackling/scratching. Sometimes this just distorts the sound output, sometimes it is so severe to mute any sound completely. - It does not happen with every application. At the moment, browsers, VLC, spotify, and so on play sound correctly. Games run under Wine (through flatpak) and some other Linux games (still flatpak) have this problem. When this happens, when I close an app that causes this problem, sometimes even other apps (said browsers, spotify, etc) have their sounds distorted, at least for a while. - I'm not sure about this, but I think that I noticed this problem more often when there is a heavier system load (especially disk I/O), but to be honest, after all this time trying to figure this out without results, it may be me drawing unrelated conclusions. - This problem occurs only with a specific audio device, that controls my laptop built-in speakers: an "AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio". My system is also equipped with an "AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio" device that controls audio from the HDMI port, which works correctly when I connect it to i.e. an external TV. Everything is also working correctly with Bluetooth headphones or wired headphones connected to the jack port. This problem is occurring with every possible configuration that I can't test: - Both with pipewire (my default engine, which was working correctly until a month ago) and pulseaudio - Both with my user account and with a brand new test account that I created just for testing this - By logging in both with Wayland and X11 (and even ICEWM) - With every Kernel that I was able to test right now (current 6.7.x, 6.6.x, 6.5.x), but only starting from the end of December (before that, no problems even with these versions) I'm very puzzled and mildly annoyed by my inability to find a solution. From what I can see, this seems to be unrelated to my specific user config and I am unable to understand what should I do. Every possible related issue that I found by googling is mainly related to not having sound at all, which is easily diagnosed, while in my case this occurs in ways that I am not able to correctly pinpoint and troubleshoot. If it is useful, I've opened a question on Superuser, but it has received much attention. Anyway, it's here https://superuser.com/q/1827353/170331 I'm adding some useful info as attachments, feel free to ask for more. Thanks! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.