So I recently bit the bullet and replaced my 2013 laptop with a new one (a Dell Inspiron 15 3505 with a Ryzen 3700U). In nearly every way it has been a massive improvement over the old laptop (four cpu cores, 16 GB of ram, and solid state drives meant installing the OS and booting are faster than I have been used to). That said, initially I'd installed the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04) only to discover that neither the AMD nor Cirrus Logic sound were recognized. Going into the sound settings the output device was set to "Dummy Output." I did some searching, found this was apparently a not uncommon occurrence even if I'd not heard of it before, but none of the solutions that were suggested worked. So, I updated the install to 21.04 at which point Ubuntu was willing to recognize that there was an HD Audio Controller present and I now get sound. Only there's a slight distortion in it that I'm not quite sure how to describe. A sort of ringing/crackle/echo on the high pitched sounds. Lowering the volume seems to help slightly but it's still present, and this is whether I'm using the built in speakers or headphones. I'm charging up a pair of bluetooth headphones I have to see if it's present there or if that dodges around the issue. Anyway, does anyone have suggestions on what might be wrong? I've done more searches but it seems the pages I'm finding are nearly all people talking about not getting any sound. I'm inclined to think it might be a driver issue seeing as how I'm not noticing the same distortion if I boot into Windows. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss