On Saturday 25 January 2025 15:28:49 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. [snip ...]
> You're absolutely right. I was missing CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO, a setting > that builds in the USB sound driver. I'm not sure how I worked that out, > but probably somewhere on my Internet searches the concept USB sound chip > came up. It doesn't mean a setup where you plugh the loudspeakers into a > USB socket; it's to do with the internal communication inside the chip > set, or something like that. > > So now it "works". My new speakers are fine on my old box, but on the > new one, an MSI Tomahawk board, there's a constant crackling, and a sound > something like somebody playing the bongos added in for good measure. In > short, utterly unusable. This seems to have been a problem with this > make of board for many months, but MSI have failed to fix it. I can see > my still shiny new machine (from August) going back to its seller as a > guarantee case. If your MSI Tomahawk MoBo comes with a Realtek alc4080 chip, then this fix may be applicable to solve your problem: https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2023-January/210407.html HTH
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