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Shoaloak

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Registered: 2015-03-03

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[SOLVED] Compressed sound headphones after -Syu

Hello everybody,

I'm having some trouble finding the root of the problem causing audio distortion/compressed like sound of my headphone output. I suspect it might be some invalid Pulseaudio config. Could somebody please give me some pointers as I have little knowledge about Pulse. I did try some stuff of the wiki and nothing has worked so far. How would one systematically debug this?

Output of alsa-info.sh for system information
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=db3a07d6c … 329d7ceb81

Last edited by Shoaloak (2020-05-14 12:34:41)

Shoaloak

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Registered: 2015-03-03

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Compressed sound headphones after -Syu

I've tried this and here is a log of the overly verbose pulseaudio run.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Compressed sound headphones after -Syu

More likely a kernel regression. What was updated in the -Syu ? Post your pacman.log. To check a bit more from pulse's side, during active playback post

pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs

Shoaloak

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Registered: 2015-03-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Compressed sound headphones after -Syu

Thank you for your reply V1del.

Weirdly enough, my problems went away without me taking further action.
I'll monitor it for now and modify set thread to [Solved] if this problem stays away.

Maybe something went awry with the kernel and rebooting?