The audio output through the onboard jack sounded more noisy than that through HDMI audio. Was I using a wrong headphone or it was designed to behave like this?
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Hello, I’ve also been bothered by this problem, I started using 2306 mirroring to 2311 mirroring, this problem doesn’t seem to be fixed, although the HDMI output is normal, but there will be serious noise or even a sonic boom when connecting audio devices such as headphones and speakers
This issue has a serious impact on the demand for video entertainment, as most HDMI displays don’t come with their own audio output
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I’ll tell you that the HDMI sound quality is perfect at the moment.
I admit I never tried my headphones through the headphone jack.
I have one suggestion for you to try. I have seen issues like this on ARM sbc’s as well.
Please try plugging in an external usb audio dongle with audio out and mic in, then try plugging your headphones into that. You might be able to get better sound quality that way.
Thanks, I tried this, at first I also thought it might be a USB power supply problem on the board, but whether it is an external power supply or using ordinary headphones, the noise is serious, and it may be a hardware problem
An old topic, but I’ve been having the same issue since kernel 6.6. I would think it’s a hardware problem, but it is not. The problem lies somewhere in modern linux’s insane sound processing stack.
You can download an emulator called “mednafen” from the Debian repo.
It has perfect sound! Every other app has noisy jack output except for Mednafen - it’s especially jarring with CD games featuring digital audio. It sounds crispy clean!
So what is the reason? Well the logs say it goes directly to hardware/alsa (hw 0,0), bypassing Pipewire or Pulse or any other library.
(I then tried uninstalling Pipewire system-wide and it brought the entirety of gnome down with it. Still did not fix the noise.)
I hope this gets fixed, eventually
Likely unrelated to issue, but Is the output meant for headphones?
Might be at line level, meant to be received by an amplifier elsewhere. I only ever used a usb soundcard.
Yes, of course it’s meant for speakers, including headphones. If you want evidence, read the post above.
Edit: it just wouldn’t work in that case and it wouldn’t have been working perfectly back in the 5.15 days you see
wireplumber: Old configuration file detected: /…
wireplumber: Lua configuration files are NOT supported in WirePlumber 0.5. You need to port them to the new format if you are going to use them.
Since breaking wireplumber fixed the issue, this is the likely reason for the jack noise in the official image.
Making light of it here, I hope the developer notices.