Loud POPPING sound
 

There's a popping sound when im on battery power. This has never happened it's concievably possible i have upgraded since the last time ive used the battery..

Restarting ALSA seems to fix it, but if i logout/in it's still broken. The sound pops when initiating audio. For instance when starting a movie. Though sometimes it pops randomly.


Updated summary:

* loud popping sound approx. 11 secs after switching to battery power
* if audio hasnt been used for awhile (11 secs probably?) it will pop when audio is started (like movie, alert etc etc)

yeah that has something to do with an alsa timeout for power saving purposes, the pop you hear is probably the sound card being re-initialized
i forget the exact file you have to edit but the value can be changed or disabled

Not really a family worded post, could you edit that please?

Could it be a bad connection somewhere?

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OP: Watch the language, please

This might help. Apparently, you can echo values to this power save option. So, if you have an ac-97 soundcard (as root)It sounds like there is a corresponding file for hd cards. I wouldn't know as my kernel doesn't seem to be built with those.