My Fedora 29 system was working fine, but somewhere along the line I started getting distorted, crackling audio. Like, not just clicks or pops, but really bad. It seems like unplugging the speakers and re-plugging sometimes resets it, but not always, and only briefly. Plus, when I use the Test butto…

I found a work-around, if not a solution. A upstream pulseaudio bug report describes the same issue and offers a workaround — adding a parameter tsched=0 to the pulseaudio config. To do this, I edited /etc/pulse/default.pa, and found the section ### Automatically load driver modules depending on th…

My audio is making horrible crackling sounds — what should I do?

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My audio is making horrible crackling sounds — what should I do?

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