Loud popping sound when desktop environment loads on startup

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Hi all, as the title says, whenever I boot up my pc, a loud pop is audible on the transition from the fedora splash screen to gnome’s login screen. It has been this way for quite a while (long before the most recent update). As some older forum posts suggested, I tried to disable audio power saving, by editing my alsa-base.conf and asound.conf, but none of those options worked for me. Below is some info that I thought might be useful, any help is much appreciated!

inxi -A:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active

pactl info:

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 60
Tile Size: 65472
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.2.7)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor

uname -r:

6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64
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Try the solution of the maker of Pipewire:

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Thanks for the reply, but that didn’t solve it. Any idea what else I could try/where I could look?

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I don’t think there’s much that can be done. This happens when pipewire and the audio driver is loaded the first time. It’s a problem in the actual hardware, like the pop noise when you turn your home stereo on.

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I could cancel this kind of noise when I had my speakers connected direct on the headphones connector on the computer.

Now I found out that I can connect the speaker direct on my monitor and then select it in gnome settings over HDMI. This way I do not use this “patch” anymore.

Did you reboot after apply this? Or restarting the necessary services?

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Yes, I rebooted. @marko3209 I think there should be a way, because I used to run manjaro on this same pc and the issue wasn’t present there.

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On a Dell Latitude 5591, I recall different pops between FreeBSD and Linux between boot, log-in manager, and desktop, but seemingly none with Windows:

  • GNOME Fedora/Ubuntu/openSUSE had pops when GDM log-in loaded, and pops when the desktop loaded (I recall the pops differed between Xorg and Wayland but not sure how or why it might)
  • I used startx on FreeBSD and iirc only had the pops when Xfce desktop loaded (not boot)
  • Windows 10/11 I don’t think had pops with legacy Dell/Realtek HDA nor default MS UAD drivers

I just deal with it :stuck_out_tongue: but I wonder if the BIOS might handle power differently with ACPI if it detected Windows booting instead of Linux/other OS? acpi_osi= can do that.

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Please exchange your inxi -A with a inxi -Fzxx to see what hardware you are using. If the computer is not too old,
there is the chance that you find a newer bios which works better with the newer power-saving settings from actual kernel series we are using.

Is Manjaro as Arch on newest kernels too? So the comparison not works if the kernel was older. But with more detailed hardware info’s we can help searching for a solution or a workaround.

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If you’re using tuned you may need to look at the profiles.

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This solved it! Thanks a lot!

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