After installing Fedora 44, leaving the computer in sleep then waking it up later reveals that the audio continually crackles and pops

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Assuming I’m watching video and leave the computer on suspend. Returning bacck to the video after waking upthe computer the audio continues to cracle and pop with it sounding so bad.

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I had this same issue on my HP Firefly G8, and it turned out to be a clock synchronization issue after resume.

Try running sudo chronyc makestep to see if syncing the clock instantly clears the stutter. If that works, then the issue is caused by a mismatched system clock.

I suspect this issue stems from the system clock drifting while the laptop is suspended. By default, Fedora only allows the clock to step during the first three updates after boot.

To make this fix permanent, you need to configure the chrony time service to allow “stepping” (instantly jumping) the clock anytime it detects a significant lag, rather than just at boot.

Permanent Fix:

  1. Open the configuration file:

    sudo nano /etc/chrony.conf

  2. Find the line that starts with makestep (usually makestep 1.0 3).

  3. Change the 3 to -1. The -1 means “unlimited jumps allowed.”

    makestep 1.0 -1

  4. Save and exit (Press Ctrl+O, Enter, then Ctrl+X).

  5. Restart the service to apply changes:

    sudo systemctl restart chronyd
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I used to have this issue back in April-May—the fix was just to synchronize your clock to network time, it stopped happening since then.

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

This used to fix the issue.
Infact this used to happen commonly with my brothers laptop and the fix was the same.