cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/50742550
I hope crosspost is okay here.
Hi there, linux noob here. I have managed to install Mint 22, dual boot with win11. Everything seems to be working great, except one small problem that keeps me from using mint.
Whenever my computer is not playing a sound, after about 6 seconds, my external speakers will start playing static until a noise is played (a song or even just pressing vol +/-).
I’ve searched around a bit, but haven’t found anything to fix it so far. I’ve looked on Mint forums (and asked questions but probably did it wrong cuz nobody responded). I used GPT a bit and I think that might have been a mistake. I timeshifted back to revert any changes cuz it’s scary.
I ended up getting the powersave mode to turn off in PulseAudio, but that didn’t fix it either.
Any suggestions or ideas would be tremendously appreciated. I kinda just gave up for a bit and am back on windows, which is quite unfortunate, I’m sure you’ll agree.
I’m on a Nitro AN515-58, let me know if any more info would be helpful.
When I had static on headphones on Mint (20, maybe 21) then killing PulseAudio would prevent it happening again for a variable amount of time (minutes or weeks). I hope someone suggests something better but that might be worth trying that next time it happens:
pulseaudio -k. [edit: tried that just now and had to re-select my headphones as an output device]I’ve not had to do that for a long time and I don’t know what has changed (fairly sure it had stopped happening before I got new headphones). PluseAudio isn’t even installed on my Mint MSI B450 machine, I assume it didn’t install during boot. I guess my static issues are are hardware related: something causing inference.
I just found out LM22 uses pipewire as default so Im gonna give that a try.