I am using a Gigabyte A320M S2H motherboard. Regardless of whether I use Arch, Ubuntu, or Fedora, I experience the exact same audio issue: after a while, the sound starts dropping out.
There are continuous, millisecond-long audio interruptions at random intervals. Every time a dropout occurs, I hear a popping sound from my headphones.
If I plug my headphones into the front panel audio jacks, the stuttering/popping issue disappears. However, because the front ports are of poor quality, there is a lot of static and interference in the audio. Therefore, I am stuck having to use the rear motherboard ports.
Additionally, my headphone's microphone jack doesn't work when plugged into the rear panel. I also use an external USB microphone, but the operating system doesn't recognize it at all.
Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
inxi -Aa= Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir/Cezanne HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 09:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k7.0.3-1-cachyos status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: JACK v: 0.126.0 status: off tools: N/A
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.6.4 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl