I'm running a stock Kubuntu Focus Ir14 GEN 2
I've upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
some detail on what's running:
when I run the audio output through the laptop speakers, it's fine.
when I run the default setup at home, I plug the HDMI cable into the monitor, and the speakers are connected to the monitor.
what happens is the audio works, but if the sounds stops for *5 seconds or more*, then there is a delay induced on whatever the next sound that appears. the delay is approximately 1.5 seconds of silence while the machine otherwise is producing sound, but nothing comes out teh speakers. the sound begins and works after the delay.
and, if the sound is "going", and stops for less than 5 seconds, there is no delay when it starts again.
between alsa, pipewire, wireplumber and all the other audio f**king audio craziness, I can't even understand
how it is supposed to work , or even what is running on this machine. the AI overviews that Google search
offers are 90% of the time pointing me with assertions of authority to setup files that don't exist. there's
more wrong online at this point than right.
I've been struggling with this for about an hour and I give up. this is the third time I have tried to fix this and seemingly can't.
I've tried pro audio- one setting there maps to the HDMI audio, and the delay persists.
at this point I've got 79 entries in my bash history searching for power save, suspend, fsking around with intel drivers, security limits, modprobes, SoundKeepAlive, intel-audio-powersave etc etc etc
trying different edits, rebooting, restarting, attempting to restart audio. whatever.
whatever is coming out of Google, it's all bull**** AI slop, wrapping on top of itself at this point, and incredibly frustratingly useless.
so, questions:
1- where do I read about how sound works on Linux?
2- how do I figure out what is running on this machine to make sound work?
3- how do I go about diagnosing a delay *that only appears on the HDMI output* ?
4- will the folks at Kfocus help with this?
in frustration....
I've upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
some detail on what's running:
Code:
>> pactl info Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native Library Protocol Version: 35 Server Protocol Version: 35 Is Local: yes Client Index: 110 Tile Size: 65472 User Name: USER Host Name: MACHINE Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.0.5) Server Version: 15.0.0 Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.hdmi-stereo Default Source: alsa_input.usb-Angetube_Live_Camera_Angetube_Live_Camera_20211101015-02.analog-stereo
when I run the default setup at home, I plug the HDMI cable into the monitor, and the speakers are connected to the monitor.
what happens is the audio works, but if the sounds stops for *5 seconds or more*, then there is a delay induced on whatever the next sound that appears. the delay is approximately 1.5 seconds of silence while the machine otherwise is producing sound, but nothing comes out teh speakers. the sound begins and works after the delay.
and, if the sound is "going", and stops for less than 5 seconds, there is no delay when it starts again.
between alsa, pipewire, wireplumber and all the other audio f**king audio craziness, I can't even understand
how it is supposed to work , or even what is running on this machine. the AI overviews that Google search
offers are 90% of the time pointing me with assertions of authority to setup files that don't exist. there's
more wrong online at this point than right.
I've been struggling with this for about an hour and I give up. this is the third time I have tried to fix this and seemingly can't.
I've tried pro audio- one setting there maps to the HDMI audio, and the delay persists.
at this point I've got 79 entries in my bash history searching for power save, suspend, fsking around with intel drivers, security limits, modprobes, SoundKeepAlive, intel-audio-powersave etc etc etc
trying different edits, rebooting, restarting, attempting to restart audio. whatever.
whatever is coming out of Google, it's all bull**** AI slop, wrapping on top of itself at this point, and incredibly frustratingly useless.
so, questions:
1- where do I read about how sound works on Linux?
2- how do I figure out what is running on this machine to make sound work?
3- how do I go about diagnosing a delay *that only appears on the HDMI output* ?
4- will the folks at Kfocus help with this?
in frustration....