Bug#1072515: general: Repeating cracking sound in headphones when nothing is playing.
- To: Christian Böck <debian@funtech.org>, 1072515@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: linux@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#1072515: general: Repeating cracking sound in headphones when nothing is playing.
- From: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:05:48 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] aIZATEvWsdVWmIgF@per.namespace.at>
- Reply-to: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>, 1072515@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <38216446-9e88-4d5c-858e-d17ae1e272fa@funtech.org>
- References: <171740753537.10806.6589471223442654516.reportbug@Thinkpad-W550s> <bbd6f944-ece6-4b12-9367-1264bf2fca1c@debian.org> <bbd6f944-ece6-4b12-9367-1264bf2fca1c@debian.org> <171740753537.10806.6589471223442654516.reportbug@Thinkpad-W550s> <38216446-9e88-4d5c-858e-d17ae1e272fa@funtech.org> <171740753537.10806.6589471223442654516.reportbug@Thinkpad-W550s>
Control: reassign -1 src:linux
Hi Linux maintainers,
sorry for reassigning bugs to you, but this sounds like a driver
issue. There's lspci and dmidecode output in the bug.
Chris
On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 05:09:18PM +0200, Christian Böck wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:42:17 +0200 Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 2024-06-03 11:38, Christian Böck wrote:
> > > when using headphones with my laptop (Thinkpad W550s) I get a repeating
> > > cracking (~1sec intervalls) when nothing is playing.
> >
> > I have a similar issue on a workstation with Ubuntu 22.04. What is your
> > operating system version? I believe the issue started manifesting once I
> > installed Jack. Do you have Jack on your machine?
>
> I'm running an up-to-date Debian 12 64Bit (bookworm) and I don't have Jack
> installed.
> After some messing with duckduckgo the problem seems to be, that the system
> puts the audio-chip to sleep, but not the headphone-amplifier.
> I hope someone from Debian can fix it.
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