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QBrunner

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Registered: 2019-11-10

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Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

I'm using Arch Linux with KDE Plasma and whenever I use the motherboard ports for my headset it switches from line-out to something else for a split second which causes hiccups.

My hardware is:
Intel i7 4790
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070ti (proprietary drivers)
Mainboard: Gigabyte H97-HD3
16Gb DDR3 Ram

I am using PulseAudio and have not edited any of the files (daemon.conf, default.pa, etc.) in any way. I would really appreciate some help!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

You can disable pulse reacting to a broken jack detection by removing/commenting load-module module-switch-on-port-available in your /etc/pulse/default.pa but that will also mean that you have to do the port switchover manually yourself.

QBrunner

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Registered: 2019-11-10

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

The issue sadly still persists. So it still has that little hiccup.

V1del

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

Does it persist or is it simply during the plug in? Could just be a bad plug/mainboard audio shielding that you are unlikely to be able to do much about.

QBrunner

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

It persists. So every 30 seconds or so it has a hiccup. I dual boot sometimes for some games though and I didn't have any issues there.

V1del

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

Try a

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

in a /etc/modprobe.d/audioPower.conf or so and reboot

QBrunner

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Registered: 2019-11-10

Posts: 13

Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

It sadly is still there. Do you think it's just a hardware error?

QBrunner

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Registered: 2019-11-10

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Re: Randomly switching audio device when plugged into motherboard ports

Here you can see what it looks like when it's switching devices for a second. https://imgur.com/a/2YHzi5n

Thank you already for your help and time though!

Last edited by QBrunner (2021-04-19 17:15:46)