Hello all,
I use Ubuntu Studio 20.04, and have done so for a year or so without any problems, but then I moved my hard-drive and soundcard to another computer, and after this I get a very distorted, crackling sound. Before the movement I could use JACK, but if I did afterwards I got no sound at all, so I had to use Pulseaudio. Later I became aware of Pipewire, and installed that, following first this guide:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... untu-linux
and later again (when it didn't stop the crackle), this almost identical guide:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1339765 ... ect=1&lq=1
since it had an extra step, "masking" Pulseaudio (step 8 ), but still the crackling sound remained.
I've also tried with Ubuntu Studio 20.04 from a live-usb, but with that I get no sound at all, don't know why. After that I tried an old version (20.03) of Linux Mint, I have on the same hard drive, and this gives the same distortion as US 20.04. I also have AV Linux (AVL-MXE) on my hard drive, and contrary to US and Mint I can only get sound with JACK here, not with Pulseaudio, but actually here there is NO distortion. Of course thats good, but since US has more apps that I use in its repository than AV Linux has, I prefer US and wish I could get rid of this damned noise. Any suggestions?
PS. When I moved the hard-drive and soundcard to the other computer, I also installed another graphics card, but I guess that has no impack on the sound.