When I use my desktop speakers through Line out everything is fine. However when I use my headphones the sound works great with the exception of some static noise that I can hear in the headphones. It's not consistent and happens at random intervals. It happens most often when I'm playing a game but sometimes it will happen when I'm browsing the internet as well.
I posted the issue to reddit and someone there suggested I try adding
tooptions snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi
to fix it but it did not help./etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
I was also asked to run
the output of that waslspci -nnk | grep -iA2 audio
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1462:f641] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fbc] (rev a1) Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:3753] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
PC Specs:
Os: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa 64-bit
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64
De: MATE 1.20.1
Cpu: AMD FX4300
Gpu: Nvidia GTX 750 TI
Driver: 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ram: 16GB DDR3 1333
Headphones: Skullcandy Hesh 2
The output of inxi -Fxz is
System:
Host: ******-MS-7641 Kernel: 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: 760GM-P23(FX) (MS-7641) v: 3.0
serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 17.13 date: 12/14/2012
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD FX-4300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer
L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 30399
Speed: 1799 MHz min/max: 1400/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1799 2: 1799
3: 1778 4: 1580
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] vendor: eVga.com.
driver: nvidia v: 390.116 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-46-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800
bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 47.38 GiB (10.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA050 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 441.69 GiB used: 47.38 GiB (10.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: swap-1 size: 16.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40%
Info:
Processes: 201 Uptime: 15d 16h 22m Memory: 15.66 GiB
used: 3.69 GiB (23.6%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0
Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.27