I’ve got an odd one I haven’t been able to track down.
KDE plasma has, every few updates, introduced or removed “silent” speaker buzz for me.
That is, when no sound is coming through, desktop volume at 30% and speaker knob at 40% is usually silent, as expected, but every few updates (like the current update) it buzzes on that setting.
The buzz stops if anything is playing. The buzz stops for ~15 seconds if I click up the sound widget in the taskbar, not if I change any settings, just opening it up.
I’ve tried poking around with alsamixer settings, in case it’s another default 100% issue like I was having with my mic a while back. I’m just casually poking at it, I’m sure it’ll be fixed (again) in another update or 3, and then break a few after that.
I saw this a few days ago. I swore I tried it and it didn’t help. I just ran the temp-fix command and it’s working. dangit. well thanks for sending me back at this solutions i could have sworn didn’t work last week.
Hmm not a complete solution. It has lessened the buzzing, but not eliminated it. That could just be the cheapness of this set of speaks though. They 100% have poor shielding and pick up noise from my cellphone being near them too. Wrapping the bases in tinfoil helped with that particular issue.