High-pitched buzzing coming out of the speaker

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi all,
I recently installed Endeavour on my HP Victus 16, and everything is working fine so far - except one thing, when playing basically any audio, my speakers buzz. It is not very loud and doesnt interfere with the audio, but its just really annoying. Its a high pitched sound. The noise stops once I plug in headphones or turn off my speaker in the settings, but not if I lower my volume to 0%. I tried switching from Pipewire to PulseAudio but the issue persists.
Here is my inxi -Aa:

[chithewr@victus16 ~]$ inxi -Aa
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel
    alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x,snd_acp_pci,snd_sof_amd_renoir
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.3-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes

Any advice on how do I fix this? Thanks in advance!

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It’s possible that it’s electronics noise - some systems have this worse than others.

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Welcome! :rocket:

Does that noise by chance gone if you use laptop on battery?

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You could try the following. It may or may not work. If it doesn’t then you can just remove it. Create the following.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/snd_hda_intel.conf

add

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

ctrl + o then enter to save
ctrl + x to exit nano

Reboot and see if it makes any difference. If you find it doesn’t then you can remove it.

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It isn’t the electronics noise I think, the laptop came with W11 and it didnt make the noise.

Its not gone while on battery sadly.

And ricklinux’s suggestion didnt work :confused: