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Mint 22 external speaker static (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there, linux noob here. I have managed to install Mint 22, dual boot with win11. Everything seems to be working great, except one small problem that keeps me from using mint.
Whenever my computer is not playing a sound, after about 6 seconds, my external speakers will start playing static until a noise is played (a song or even just pressing vol +/-).
I've searched around a bit, but haven't found anything to fix it so far. I've looked on Mint forums (and asked questions but probably did it wrong cuz nobody responded). I used GPT a bit and I think that might have been a mistake. I timeshifted back to revert any changes cuz it's scary.
I ended up getting the powersave mode to turn off in PulseAudio, but that didn't fix it either.
Any suggestions or ideas would be tremendously appreciated. I kinda just gave up for a bit and am back on windows, which is quite unfortunate, I'm sure you'll agree.
I'm on a Nitro AN515-58, let me know if any more info would be helpful.
Edit: The speakers are AC powered.

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[–] knobbysideup 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Analog amplified speakers?

Could be power saving by pulse. I haven't needed to disable it in awhile though. When power save kicks in you'll get noise.

For example, to disable on an Intel card:

#/etc/modprobe.d/audio_disable_powersave.conf options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh sorry, yeah, they're AC powered external speakers, forgot to mention. Also when wearing headphones, it seems to make a very slight buzz, but nothing as bad as the speakers. ~~I will look into pulse, i think i tried it once but didnt end up getting it to actually turn off the power save.~~ Thanks!
Edit: Actually i did get pulseaudio to turn off powersave but didn't fix it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This article goes into more detail and is more noob friendly: https://itsfoss.com/buzzing-noise-speaker-linux/