I'm running Linux Mint 17 / Cinnamon on a self-built machine. My audio stutters and crackles for everything: computer startup sound, Youtube, Pandora, VLC playing mp3... I've noticed that it sometimes gets worse when my CPU usage goes up, but it's also pretty bad when nothing intensive is running.
One interesting thing is when playing a game in the foreground and streaming music in the background, the music streaming in the background sounds fine, while the game music is choppy and of lesser quality.
I've tried this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... er#p780169 with no luck.
Can someone help me figure out what's going on? Thanks! My hardware is listed underneath. The NVIDIA audio device uses the same kernel driver (snd_hda_intel) as the other one. I don't know if that's relevant.
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lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f70fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000f1ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
Memory at f7220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family ME Interface #1
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f723a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 85c4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
Memory at f7200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at f7238000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f7237000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8630
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at f7230000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev d0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d0) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev d0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: f7100000-f71fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f7236000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
I/O ports at f070 [size=8]
I/O ports at f060 [size=4]
I/O ports at f020 [size=32]
Memory at f7235000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8534
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at f7234000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f000 [size=32]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 84bb
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 84bb
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f7080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>
05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 85e3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at f7100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
might be of note for Z97, snd_hda_intel?