So, I just noticed it's been a minute since I last posted. I typically only post things that I need to find again in the future--and apparently that's been less often lately.
Today, I needed to figure out WHY IN THE WORLD my LG 4K HDMI monitor was popping throughout the day. And, indeed I did, but first, how did I get here?
I am a longtime Ubuntu user. This machine was built with Ubuntu in 2017-11 and upgraded to LTS release in 2018. I do daily apt updates but recently bit the bullet and brought it up to 2020 LTS release. That went very well and I see a number of improvements. However, it also started making a LOUD popping noise that I couldn't tie to any particular user activity.
A bit of googling later and I found that it was likely related to snd_hda_intel module and its power_save settings. power_save defaults to 1 (on this machine and similar) as it is a laptop and power_save is a good thing for a laptop. However, 98% of the time, it is now running primarily as a desktop. You know, COVID-19 and nowhere to go....
I confirmed the issue by further googling and found my friend Major Hayden's post when I ran into this same thing: https://major.io/2019/03/04/stop-audio-pops-on-intel-hd-audio/ it has a better writeup, more detail etc. But I post here so that I can easily find this myself for future me. I also thanked past Major here: https://twitter.com/davidmedberry/status/1371588276176363521
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