Re: cracking sound from left channel

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Bhasker C V wrote: 
> Thanks Dan,
> The audio cracking comes up only after a suspend resume or reboot when
> done on its own
> If I boot into windows, reboot the system (without switchoff) into
> linux, the sound is fine. The next time i reboot into linux the issue
> comes back.
> 
> The sound is as if the speaker paper of an old speaker is torn. The
> fluttering sound when there is high bass on the headphones. The sound is
> clear
> and fine when on windows and when on linux when immediately booted after
> windows.
> 
> This to my limited knowledge feels like windows writes something to the
> config registers or downloads a firmware which makes sound card work
> fine but then when cold booted into linux, linux is missing to do
> something. ... may be I am wrong.

I would guess that Windows is setting internal mixer parameters
differently.

Try killing pulseaudio, running alsamixer, and seeing if you can
change the behavior with any of the available switches or
internal mutes.

-dsr-