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Daviljoe193

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From: the boring old Fall River M.A

Registered: 2015-06-24

Posts: 36

Really terrible audio artifacting, short video example included.

I've bought a new laptop, the Asus Zenbook 3 (UX390U), but I've been having some horrible nasty audio issues. This is a very fresh Arch Linux installation, but this issue seems to affect everything, like Dolphin, Citra, Firefox, and MPV. I've never had any issue like this on my prior computers, so I don't even know where to start with troubleshooting this problem. Any help would be appreciated. Everything is pretty standard, minus the kernel, which is the LTS kernel, due to Wi-Fi issues with the mainline kernel. Here's the video I mentioned with the audio artifacting in full effect. Obviously, it should sound like this instead. I don't even know how to describe this type of artifacting.

EDIT: I've narrowed down what causes this issue to specifically rebooting from Windows 10 into Arch Linux. Obviously Windows 10 changes something about the audio to cause this nastiness, because this doesn't happen if I shut down the hardware, only if I reboot when in Windows. Still, I'd like to know why the audio gets so screwy when I reboot from Windows into Linux, because this doesn't seem like something that should happen at all. I probably should've mentioned I'm dual booting Windows 10 with Arch Linux, but it didn't occur to me that this setup was even capable of enabling something like this to happen.

Last edited by Daviljoe193 (2020-04-01 00:53:09)

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I'm a noob, a noob that has installed Arch (And Gentoo.) several times on obscure hardware, and a noob that has used Linux exclusively for 6 years now, but I'm still just a noob.
Main Computer: Dell Inspiron 11 - 4GB ram, 500 GB spinning rust, plain Arch X86-64, UEFI