I'm using Ubuntu 21.10 and have just started getting strange audio outputs on my laptop speakers, despite nothing playing.
The sound itself is quite hard to describe, but sounds roughly like a sort of modulated white noise sound. It is also quite loud, and plays out of the laptop speakers, and is unaffected by system volume (this has lead to a few embarrassing meetings where I can't make my laptop stop making this weird noise and just have to reboot).
It seems to be triggered somewhat randomly, but I can also force it to happen by:
- playing any audio (i.e. a youtube video)
- running a
pulseaudio ...command - opening the sound section of the settings app
I found the following questions which sound like the same issue, but neither solutions have worked for me:
- Strange noise in Audio
- Sound popping and static audio Ubuntu 21.10
- External speakers are buzzing when no sound is playing
Some details of the system:
- Razer Blade 15 2022 (has a nvidia discrete GPU, and an Alder Lake 12th gen CPU, both of which have caused other driver-related issues)
uname -r: 5.13.0-35-generic- Ubuntu 21.10
- Dual booting Windows 11 (worth mentioning Windows has no such sound issues)
- Secure boot is off, as is Windows fast boot
Any help would be very appreciated
