[LINUX] Audio Pops

MicroPC
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This might pertain to many other Linux distros as well, but I’ve only used Xubuntu 18.04 so far.

If your speaker is making a pop sound when a sound is made, and after audio has been idle, it’s likely due to powersave turning the soundcard off and on.

Add this to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

MicroPC audio pop fix
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N

Reboot your MicroPC, and the pops should go away!

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Thanks! This seems to work excellent on Arch for as well on both the MPC and Pocket 2.

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Awesome, in that case, I’ll change the title to [LINUX] instead of Xubuntu.