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Issues With Sound Clipping

I had issues getting audio to work at all a while back.  I did finally get it working, but now I have had issues with sound clipping often.  I know the issue is with the sound levels, but I'm not sure how to fix it.  If I have youtube set to 50%, my speakers at 50% and my system tray volume at 50% I can hear clear audio most time, but if any one of them is set to 75% I start getting clipping issues.

Right now I have pulseaudio installed as well as pavucontrol-qt, but I do not see any issues within the pulse audio mixer.  I have tried using alsamixer and amixer, but receive the below output when trying to open them.

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ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '2'
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

sof-firmware and alsa-ucm-conf  have been installed as well. 

How can I best access mixer settings to ensure the levels are low enough to turn up the volume directly on my external speakers?

Re: Issues With Sound Clipping

Reply #2 –
sudo inxi -Fxzm to show us your system please.  post the output here.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Issues With Sound Clipping

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Quote from: cat herders of linux – on
sudo inxi -Fxzm to show us your system please.  post the output here.


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System:
  Kernel: 5.17.1-artix1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: LXQt v: 1.0.0 Distro: Artix Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Framework product: Laptop v: A6 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Framework model: FRANBMCP06 v: A6 serial: <filter> UEFI: INSYDE
    v: 03.07 date: 12/14/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 53.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 53.3/55.0 Wh (96.9%)
    volts: 17.6 min: 15.4 model: NVT Framewo status: discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 62.6 GiB used: 6.86 GiB (11.0%)
  RAM Report:
    missing: Required tool dmidecode not installed. Check --recommends
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 994 high: 1150 min/max: 400/4700 cores: 1: 1017 2: 1123
    3: 852 4: 1150 5: 858 6: 1047 7: 851 8: 1058 bogomips: 44864
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Realtek Laptop Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-7:4
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 2256x1504~60Hz
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Device-2: CMX Systems USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-6.4.4.4:40
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-artix1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: aa:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB
    driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-4.3:9
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-10:7
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 17.39 GiB (1.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0
    size: 931.51 GiB temp: 45.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: USB DISK 3.2 size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 847.74 GiB used: 17.14 GiB (2.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-5d522073-6dd1-457a-ac73-84b80e1b16e3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 452 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 68.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: luks-5a8b4168-ca8c-42ab-b623-4f501b084c0d
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 272 Uptime: 2d 6h 49m Init: N/A rc: OpenRC v: 0.44.10
  runlevel: default Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 704 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  inxi: 3.3.15
 

Re: Issues With Sound Clipping

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Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Device-2: CMX Systems USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-6.4.4.4:40
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-artix1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: no


So you have two audio devices running and you are using pulse audio not pipewire.

So you need to disable one device that is not in use.


https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3837.0.html  this topic looks relevant to those tasks.
Cat Herders of Linux