Crackling Sound in old laptop

Rockman98 · 2021-11-01 18:52

Hello,

I have 17 years old laptop, Vaio VGN-A517B. It has 768mb RAM.

I installed Q4OS as dualboot os along with Windows XP. It works very well unless the crackling audio.

What can cause this issue?

Thanks

My Q4OS image file: "Q4OS Gemini, Trinity, install-cd - 32bit / i386 ... 632 MBytes"

Desktop Environment: Trinity

Desktop software Profile: Basic

My video about this issue: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AnH6CId21uiYgtw0R0D … A?e=5RoxYf

Last edited by Rockman98 (2021-11-01 19:40)

q4osteam · 2021-11-01 19:27

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Rockman98 · 2021-11-01 20:15

I updated my post.

q4osteam wrote:

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Clint Burtwood · 2021-11-09 17:53

I have the same issue, same sound at startup and again after reaching desktop aaand finally same crackling sound right before any sound event startup sound or like playing a song or video. Used VLC, MPV, Sayonara, QMMP etc etc.. So it seems the sound is activated and deactivated all the time by something and makes that rather horrible crackling every time. Rather embarrassing showing an ancient laptop running a new OS (TDE) and it sounds like a Wartburg from 1980. I could really use some advice on how to get rid of that Same sound happened with Zorin OS 15 and Debian, but not with Windows 7..

bin · 2021-11-10 06:20

I had the same issue with linux on one of these machines - never did solve it.

Rockman98 · 2021-11-20 17:42

I asked to my programming teacher, he told me that it doesn't a mechanical sound, so it's hard to debug it.

Everything seems good excluding that sound.

crosscourt · 2021-11-20 23:08

Two principal causes are bad cables/connectors and poor drivers. Linux has issues with audio drivers, particularly with older hardware.
Sometimes using ALSA without Pulseaudio will solve the issue. If you Google- use ALSA without Pulseaudio- Im sure youll find a method to accomplish it.

Last edited by crosscourt (2021-11-20 23:08)

Rockman98 · 2021-12-03 11:56

crosscourt wrote:

Two principal causes are bad cables/connectors and poor drivers. Linux has issues with audio drivers, particularly with older hardware.
Sometimes using ALSA without Pulseaudio will solve the issue. If you Google- use ALSA without Pulseaudio- Im sure youll find a method to accomplish it.

I looked, but i couldn't find anything.

crosscourt · 2021-12-03 17:58

One of the problems today is, so many things use Pulseaudio and its difficult to use ALSA alone without causing further issues.
The crackling sound is caused by PCI device latency issues which were common back in the day. Drivers did a good job of mitigating the issue but they werent perfect. In your case your using a Realtek sound chip and the drivers have been problematic for a long time. Even in XP there were some issues with the drivers.
Using ALSA alone would help but it might not solve it entirely. You could look at maybe using an external USB sound device to get around the issue and disable integrated sound. With a 17 year old laptop thats using a Pentium M cpu that has its own issues with lack of support for modern cpu features it might be time to go look for a newer/used laptop that will have better OS/ driver support.

Rockman98 · 2021-12-05 09:30

crosscourt wrote:

One of the problems today is, so many things use Pulseaudio and its difficult to use ALSA alone without causing further issues.
The crackling sound is caused by PCI device latency issues which were common back in the day. Drivers did a good job of mitigating the issue but they werent perfect. In your case your using a Realtek sound chip and the drivers have been problematic for a long time. Even in XP there were some issues with the drivers.
Using ALSA alone would help but it might not solve it entirely. You could look at maybe using an external USB sound device to get around the issue and disable integrated sound. With a 17 year old laptop thats using a Pentium M cpu that has its own issues with lack of support for modern cpu features it might be time to go look for a newer/used laptop that will have better OS/ driver support.

1. How to disable the audio?

2. If i want to remove Linux paritition what should i do?

3. How to expand it to NTFS?

Note that i’m dualbooting with WinXP.

crosscourt · 2021-12-05 21:51

You can disable the integrated sound in the bios of your device. Using a USB sound adapter should work both with Linux and XP.

Try that first and see how it goes.

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