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totally-grey

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Registered: 2025-12-15

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Audio crackling sometimes

I recently installed Arch with Hyprland, and since then I've been experiencing audio crackling. The audio from games, music or video works fine until I try scroll through Steam so the audio start popping wherever is the source of audio. The major issue occurs when I try to play any video in fullscreen on Steam, as all audio begins to crackle, whether it's from Steam or other applications.
I also noticed a half-second crackle when audio is playing and I switch the focused window, specifically from Firefox to any other application.

I've try:
-Change the clock rate from pipewire;
-Change quantum values from pipewire;
-Disable power saving config;
-Change hyprland screen framerrate;
-Reinstall hyprland and pipewire
-Change to another DE, I try XFCE and the problem still there
(I rebooted the system after trying all possible solutions, and this issue also affects Bluetooth.)

Specs:
CPU: R5 5500
GPU: RX 9060 XT 16GB
MoBo: Biostar B450MH

Kernel: 6.17.9-arch1-1
WM: Hyprland 0.52.2

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 71,585

Re: Audio crackling sometimes

x-ref, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310985
Do you also get this when disconnecting the video output (monitor)?

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totally-grey

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Registered: 2025-12-15

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Re: Audio crackling sometimes

x-ref, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310985
Do you also get this when disconnecting the video output (monitor)?

Disconnect the monitor don't fix, but I tried to connect the headset on monitor audio input and the audio works perfectly, there's no issues. I'm using the monitor on HDMI connection.

Ateku

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Registered: 2025-12-14

Posts: 15

Re: Audio crackling sometimes

I have the same issue as you with the same specs. For me, for now, audio works if ncpamixer is run in background. Not sure if this will be the case for you, but with Hyprland you can just:

exec-once=ncpamixer

Do you also have HDMI input to GPU close to motherboard (below the IO shield)?
I will post below the results of `lspci` and `lsusb` as per seth suggestion to compare:

~ > lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 7
10:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 25)
11:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 25)
12:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT] (rev c0)
12:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 HDMI/DP Audio Controller
16:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset USB 3.1 XHCI Controller
16:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset SATA Controller
16:00.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset Switch Upstream Port
20:08.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset Switch Downstream Port
20:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset Switch Downstream Port
29:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7921K (RZ608) Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz
2a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
2b:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: MAXIO Technology (Hangzhou) Ltd. NVMe SSD Controller MAP1202 (DRAM-less) (rev 01)
30:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Zeppelin/Raven/Raven2 PCIe Dummy Function (rev c9)
30:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir/Cezanne HDMI/DP Audio Controller
30:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir/Cezanne Platform Security Processor
30:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
30:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
30:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio Controller

~ > lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1462:7c95 Micro Star International MYSTIC LIGHT
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0e8d:0608 MediaTek Inc. Wireless_Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0c76:161e JMTek, LLC. USB PnP Audio Device
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1038:182e SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Prime
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 09da:faa8 A4Tech Co., Ltd. USB Device
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

ksraylan

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Registered: 2025-10-30

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Re: Audio crackling sometimes

It started crackling on my machine too after some packages updates more or less than a week.
And I noticed that the audio device name changed from 17h family or something to Ryzen HD Audio Controller, so it could be related too.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 71,585

Re: Audio crackling sometimes

Also see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310985

And I noticed that the audio device name changed from 17h

So your system isn't new (we currently have one new user and one w/ changed HW…) and this is a regression w/ some software update?
Do you get it w/ the LTS kernel?

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