Weird issues after swapping GPU from nVidia to AMD: audio crackling and mouse cursor "lagging" and going crazy
PoP_OS 22.04.
Recently upgraded GPU and went from nVidia to AMD. Since AMD drivers are already baked into the kernel, I simply uninstalled nVidia ones by
sudo apt purge ~nnvidiabut after doing so and rebooting with the new GPU, the game I had been playing until minutes before the swap started giving me an unbearable amount of audio crackling, mainly (but not exclusively) when there's audio besides the one from the game playing (e.g. background music player).
Searching online I found out it's an issue with pipewire, and found someone mentioning a solution that edited the quantum values, though that didn't work for me; specifically, making default.clock.quantum larger.
The second issue happens everywhere but fullscreen applications (e.g. games): if I quickly draw circles with my mouse, at some point the pointer starts drifting away in erratic ways, even though I'm still drawing circles with my mouse; other times, especially when there's a windowed app (such as FreeTube while playing a video), even simply moving the mouse across the screen results in the pointer lagging behind as if the screen were jelly, and if I start drawing circles, the video stutters to the point of freezing.
Now, the audio issue is extremely problematic since I have to keep volume very low, as even an average volume means crackling is loud to the point it hurts my ears; the jelly-pointer is less of an issue, but still very annoying.
Any ideas?
Anyone who had these issues and is now on PoP 24 beta? Long shot, but it releases next week and if the issue was fixed for you, I'll wait, otherwise I might just try a different distro.
Thanks in advance!
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Letter from a British political prisoner for Palestine
As a prisoner, you learn three things. First, no one tells you anything. Second, you’re usually the last to find out information pertaining to yourself. And third, requests and complaints are shut down with two words: “security reasons.”
Take the example of my library job, removed without reason on 1 August 2025. I was checking my timetable when I noticed the unemployed marker. At my previous prison, HMP Bronzefield, I was security-cleared to work as a Shannon Trust mentor, a one-to-one role helping other prisoners improve their reading skills. I was working as a peer right until my sudden and immediate transfer to HMP Peterborough. It was not until day eight of my hunger strike that I gained clarity behind the decision.
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Big fan of his work, though.
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ProtonMail allows scheduling and snoozing messages for free at preset times, e.g. tomorrow, next Monday, this weekend, etc., and always at 8, but makes people pay to choose a customized date and time.
I had a hunch that this restriction might only be implemented client-side, so I tried modifying the value in DevTools for the first time, and I couldn't believe it : that worked !
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Enjoy !
This is a cool user script. I don't want to take that away from you. Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You're providing a useful feature to people.
However I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful. If your script auto updates you are opening yourself up to a delayed attack. And if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation. Determine your threat model and capability and proceed appropriately.
This is the privacy community after all.
Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You’re providing a useful feature to people.
i had the same though when i read the title and it appealed to me because of it and also because i'm a proton user (for now).
i'd like to think this is safer than the other scripts that existed(ed) out there in that you can see the source for yourself, so maybe the threat isn't so extreme.
This is a cool user script.
Thank you !
I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful.
What about stuff that runs everywhere, including email clients ?
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if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation
Yeah, maybe I should add some comments, and also highlight the import of createFetchInterceptor (still my own code but in a separate file for reusability).
This is the privacy community after all.
* Piracy 😉
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FauxLiving
in reply to mumei • • •That probably didn’t do anything. I think it sets the quantum if it isn’t otherwise set.
Check pw-top while you’re playing from a source where you experience crackling. You can see the quantum value, if it’s low (usually 1) then that source is using the minimum quantum.
You can change it, temporarily (until reboot/pipewire service restart) with
Try 256 to start with increase if you still get crackling.
Here’s the documentation on pipewire buffering: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…
I’ll leave finding the config file to make this permanent as an exercise for the reader.
FAQ · Wiki · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab
GitLabmumei
in reply to FauxLiving • • •Thanks for the reply and sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Your solution works and 256 is enough to get rid of basically all cracklings, thank you!
FauxLiving
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in reply to First_Thunder • • •just_another_person
in reply to mumei • • •You sure your PSU can handle this new card AND all your other components?
A good sign it can't is if this only happens when your card is under a fair amount of utilization.
mumei
in reply to just_another_person • • •just_another_person
in reply to mumei • • •Try disabling the power saving settings for the machine, and make sure your power profile is set to 'performance'. See if that changes anything.
I am certain this is a power issue, but where it's stemming from us difficult to tell without actually seeing the machine.
Would also be useful if you check your BIOS for voltage settings for your CPU/MEM, and your PCIE lanes.
mumei
in reply to just_another_person • • •It's not a laptop so I don't have power saving options that would affect performance (I only see automatic suspend and screen inactivity).
I tried performance power mode, but that did nothing for crackling. The only thing that works is setting the min-quantum value like the top comment suggested. Thanks!
bridgeenjoyer
in reply to mumei • • •I have crackling issues sometimes too in games. It comes and goes.
On mint, 15 year old cpu and a rx 6700 card.
Like others said, make sure its not psu or mobo. Check your psu fan, for starters. They die often and the pc will run but act very weird and eventually shut down abruptly.
Im actually using 1 pc with a dead psu fan and I throttle the graphics card so it doesn't crash, it works.
Change to pipewire if you didnt..
mumei
in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •HW is in top shape, so no issues there. Pipewire is the deafult on PoP.
As the top comment suggested, the issue is in the min-quantum value being too low. Not a HW issue per se, it's just that the CPU can't keep up.
Thanks though!
Levi
in reply to mumei • • •mumei
in reply to Levi • • •I'm new to Linux (and very inexperienced, since PoP just worked out of the box until now), so I can't relate haha though apparently the audio crackling is due to the CPU not being fast enough to do everything it's required to, and when it starts lagging behind too much and can't respect the min-quantum value anymore, the weird audio issue shows up.
setting min-quantum to a higher value (PoP ships with 32 min, I set it to 256) mitigates the issue a lot
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