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I have Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop with I9-10885H and NVidia GTX1650. I have installed nvidia-drivers-510 proprietary drivers. I am using Jabra SPEAK 510 USB speakerphone for audio.

After initial 22.04 installation audio worked fine.

Then I upgraded the packages with Software Updater. This broke the audio with Jabra. Sometimes it works OK for some time, but at some point audio becomes distorted, with lots of static etc. Example clip (sorry, low volume): https://sndup.net/cm3m/

When this happens, USB keyboard also starts to act weird: single press to for example j key sometimes "sticks" and produces jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.... until another key is pressed.

I think this dpkg.log contains the upgraded packages that broke audio: https://pastebin.com/KCvtua2r

Laptop's own speakers and the headphone connection work fine.

I see many tempting answers like https://askubuntu.com/a/1404159 but I am hesitant about trying those without understanding at all what's going on and what the fixes do.

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Janne Mattila
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  • Does it happen in both outputs (digital and analog)? – ChanganAuto Jun 02 '22 at 13:31
  • Yes it does.

    Weird, now I am running about 15 minutes with good audio. Could it have been this phenomenon: https://askubuntu.com/a/1404153 - I only did a proper shutdown (or at least dual booted to windows) now and it feels it may have helped.

    I will know more after tomorrow's workday, wrapping up now for today.

     – Janne Mattila Jun 02 '22 at 14:04
  • Yes, it could have been. And if you're dual-booting with Windows disabling Windows' Fast Startup Feature is a must. Among other issues it can mess with the hardware initialization. – ChanganAuto Jun 02 '22 at 14:49
  • Seems to be related to restarts and maybe dual booting to windows. Powering off/on before boot seems to improve things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p85xwZ_OLX0 Unfortunately there's no option to disable fast startup in my win 10 even when I click "Change settings that are currently unavailable" – Janne Mattila Jun 03 '22 at 07:45

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Distorted audio seems to happen more rarely (but still sometimes) as long as I do a cold startup, ie. don't restart my laptop but instead fully shutdown and then start it.

Janne Mattila
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