When gaming I get this sound all the time.
When playing games I get this sound constantly, I'm not sure what's causing it or how to find out what would be causing this.
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That's the sound of a USB device connecting and disconnecting iirc. Try disconnect all USB devices and then connect them one at a time and see which is giving trouble.
It's an onboard wifi/bluetooth device and it's only when running games. I don't know how to fix it, makes it worse because Bazzite is atomic I can't download drivers and stuff to try and fix
Kind of lines up with everything else though, I can't turn on bluetooth in my OS, thought it was just a bug.
i wonder if its power related. Gaming is quite the energy hog, most PCs during gaming need to suck up around 7A or so. Are you connected to a UPS or power strip? can you try another power source? finally what PSU are you using (brand and wattage) and what are your hardware specs? anyway you could try another PSU and see if that resolves your issue?
lastly, did this started happening sporadically out of nowhere? was it always a problem?
A UPS would help stabilize current and voltage if your house has what they call “dirty power” which i think just means that voltage fluctuates and causes noise on the line. But UPS is quite the investment, try a power strip first if youre not using one, howver important to note that power strips surge protectors only protect you against over voltages, not under voltages, thats what UPS are for.
750 Watts is plenty and had no issues when on Windows.
I don't think it's dirty power, only started to happen when I switched to Bazzite.
okay, if no issues on windows side, it must be software/driver related then
I see other distros having issues weth the same NIC, so I think it's a linux issue. :/
give this a read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292150
it might be something related to mac randomization
not sure if your motherboard supports that
yes according to this thread it might be a poorly supported driver
I might need to swap distros so I can add in the fixes, I don't want to, but I gotta do what I gotta do I guess. :/
you could always acquire an intel based wifi + bluetooth pcie card, ive done that for linux compatibility on this other motherboard that used realtek garbage
not sure what vendor yours is, sounds like realtek
Not spending money to stay on a distro X_X :kek:
My motherboard already has built in wifi/bluetooth, I can just swap to another distro in 1 hour and start installing better drivers and apply fixes. Just sucks that I have to do it because I like Bazzite.
understood, but do note that bazzite isnt some magical distro unlike the others, it uses sameish kernel as all the others. Hopefully not, but you might see the same bug in other distros more or less on the same version of the kernel as this one.
Right, we actually go out of our way to not ship any Wi-Fi drivers that aren't in the upstream kernel
The reason for that is they are out of tree generally because they either suck, break other hardware, or have other major issues
You should find that any distro running the same kernel version has the same behavior if this is a driver bug
The only difference you could hope to make is that other distros will let you install arbitrary kernel modules, so you can use some out of tree driver
If that doesn't end up working for you let us know so we can at least document this case
I'll check out another distro then and report, if I don't have this error on another distro, what's the next steps? I just stay on that distro?
yep, we'll never ship any wifi driver that isn't in the kernel
so if you're broken here you're likely to remain broken for the foreseeable future