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New to Arch, but I've been using Linux off and on for years. I had been away for the last 3 or 4 years however.
Ok. I have a Framework 13 laptop that I received a week or so ago.
model name: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
32 GB of RAM
1TB SDD
Linux iitoi 6.6.9-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:28:28 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Running KDE, X11 and Wayland (this happens in both) and, most importantly, pipewire.
I am new to pipewire.
The laptop has an HDMI out and it is plugged into an external monitor. I use both the laptop and external monitors. I have a sound system that I can either plug into the monitor or the headphone jack. I have different issues depending on which I plug into.
First, the onboard sound works fine. No issues other than it is a bit 'tinny'.
The sound via the external monitor skips UNLESS I start up Steam and a game in Steam. Then it will slowly correct and stay corrected until the laptop either goes to sleep or is rebooted. It does not matter if I run a video in YouTube or if I run a local video or audio file, the issue remains- it skips constantly.
After fighting this for the past week, I decided to plug the speakers into my headphone jack. At first all sound issues were resolved. Great! I thought. Then this loud noise began. And it won't stop. I have to turn off the speakers to make it stop. It sounds like that noise when something is almost plugged in correctly but not quite. A loud buzzing noise. Yes I have unplugged it and plugged it in again and made sure it was in correctly.
I've tried to go through journalctl and dmesg and I am not sure what I am missing in troubleshooting either issue.
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I'll give an update.
I also had problems with white screens randomly when waking up from sleep or from unplugging or plugging in the external monitor. I thing I've fixed these by modifying /etc/default/grub and changing the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet amdgpu.sg_display=0"
I saved and exited. Then I ran
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
rebooted. So far it seems to have helped
I then unplugged my speakers from the audio out headphone jack and plugged it into my monitor.
I attempted a video and it skipped.
I ran Steam and a game and it fixed it.
I then connected to Netflix and was able to watch a movie with zero sound issues.
I will keep looking for solutions, but I thought I'd give an update.
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I have exactly the same issue with my Framework 13 laptop running Cinnamon on Arch Linux. HDMI sound stutters badly and loud hum from headphone jack. I have tried both standard linux and lts kernels. Kernel parameter amdgpu.sg_display is set to zero.
Did you ever find a solution or work-around?
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