I have an issue with Tumbleweed for the last 2 months with all the desktops KDE, Mate, XFCE, etc…
When it boots into desktop my speakers return a blank sound like (brrrrrr) continuously, when something plays this (brrrrrr) disappears I don’t have this issue on Leap any idea what might cause this?
I’m 100% sure is not the hardware.
An open mic with level (mic or mib boost) turned up pehaps?
amixer -c0
You could try checking settings via pavucontrol. (You may need to install it first.)
Another common approach here is to create a new user and check if the behaviour exists there. If not, then it may well be a rogue config setting in the user’s ~/.config/pulse directory. You could remove (or rename) the directory, and log out and back in again. Any different?
I runned “amixer -c0” in konsole and this is the output:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 46 [72%] -18.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] -34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] -34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 22 [71%] [19.50dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 22 [71%] [19.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 19 [61%] [15.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 19 [61%] [15.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch'
Item0: '2ch'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Disabled'
I also had pavucontrol install but no luck, I renamed ~/.config/pulse and same issue.
I have encountered this with the latest version of OpenMandriva (also .RPM based)
TY for the reply!
Any active streams when the noise is being produced?
pacmd list-sink-inputs
When I have an active stream is ok like playing watching movies, etc… but when nothing plays than that “brrrrr” starts again
Right, and so if there is no active stream reported at this time, then it is likely to be hardware (or possibly driver config quirk).
I stumbled across this Ubuntu thread while researching. There seem to be a number of underlying possible causes of this issue (although I’ve never experienced anything like it). In particular, I understand Tumbleweed is using TLP (power management utility), and it may pay to check the TLP config (/etc/default/tlp) for the audio power saving configuration…
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC=0
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_BAT=0
Reference:
http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-configuration.html#audio
You where spot on with the audio power saving, Thank you a million times!
Editing the config didn’t do the job but yast did it the value was empty and I put 0 
Glad to have been of assistance here.
You need to restart the service after editing the config file but Yast does that for you