When opening a video in an application such as Discord or a web browser a brief crackling sound is made, then audio properly functions
In some games, Steam and otherwise, I hear a constant buzzing that changes in pitch and volume depending on shader quality, location in-game, and the direction in which I’m looking
I have been following along with this Manjaro forum post since it appears to be related to my issue; however when attempting to solve the issue with step 4 “Try setting alsa headroom” I am unable to locate alsa-monitor.conf (The prior steps have been unable to solve the crackling)
To remedy I attempted to use the commands listed in step 1" Create the config files for pipewire":
I have taken a look at this documentation and it appears very useful in being able to edit pipewire.conf however as I should have further stated in my post I am specifically having trouble looking for alsa-monitor.conf which is supposed to be located in /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d/
Im looking for this file in particular as the Manjaro forum post im using as reference for solving the audio problems has multiple potential fixes centered around editing that file.
I still have been unable to locate the proper files that the Forum I’m following says is required to edit, does anyone have further insight on why they’re not in the location they should be?
You could try re-installing the whole pipewire bundle and then look again, if the config files in /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/
are there. Other than that, no.
After reinstalling pipewire via the command git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire.gitI am unable to find any files in /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/
Should I attempt to remove the sound card I mentioned in my initial post to see if that has any effects?
You should install the pipewire software from the Arch- repos. Any other way may result in exactly the mess you are in right now. So please remove everything and take a look here:
Ah; sorry if I’m being a bit of a help vampire at this point, but in attempting to remove the packages listed on the EndeavourOS Pipewire page viasudo pacman -R causes errors as there are dependent applications and functions preventing the removal of the packages.
Is there some simple workaround? I haven’t found anything that immediately is related to this after some searching online.
Before attempting to completely reinstall Pipewire I managed to get the commands initially listed in my post to function and appear to have functioning config files; however the troubleshooting via those config files does not solve the crackling I hear.
Since I’ve been utterly unsuccessful to change anything in software to make this function I’m going to move onto changing hardware; will report back if I make any progress.
Thanks for the support, especially considering my clear lack of experience with linux systems.