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This article describes the setup of power management of sound devices.
If you are experiencing audio issues on your computer, you may need to update your sound card drivers. Normally, you can update your sound divers by performing a system update on your computer. This will install all the latest drivers and security fixes for your computer. On Windows, you can update the sound card drivers individually. Sound Card Drivers – are those drivers which are required to interact with particular pieces of computer Sound hardware. It is a set of small programs which are important for its chipset. And you know, every Sound card who needs manually installed drivers to work, mainly comes with a drivers CD or DVD when you buy a new card for your computer.
Power-saving mode
The Intel HDA driver has a power-saving mode to suspend the soundcard after some time of inactivity.
Kernel
Systems with an AC97 soundcard need to activate the following kernel options:
Systems with a HDA soundcard need to activate the following kernel options:
When the driver is loaded as a module then it may be needed to enable power saving by means of a module parameter:
Runtime tuning
The driver can be tuned in the sysfs filesystem under /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters:
- The power_save_controller knob controls, if power-saving mode is enabled. It is preset by the kernel option ... power-saving ....
- The power_save knob sets the time-out in seconds. It is preset by the kernel option Default time-out ...
pm-utils
The sys-power/pm-utils package contains a script to enable the power-saving mode when on battery and disable when on AC. It overrides the default values of the kernel.
If you use pm-utils, but don't want this kind of regulation, disable the script:
PulseAudio
If you have an Intel HDA soundcard and use PulseAudio, you probably want the following kernel option to improve power-saving:
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Troubleshooting
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If you hear a unwanted click sound, when the power-saving mode enables, disable the power-saving mode in the kernel.
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