On 05/09/2015 10:57 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
since some days I am experiencing strange issues with my laptop headphone jack. When I boot into Windows 8.1, everything works as expected. No problems or cracking sounds. When I boot my Arch installation, it seems like everything breaks. My headphones randomly produce loud cracking sounds and when I manage to get something out of them, the sound is blurred and sounds disturbed.
I've had issues in the past with audio crackles that were caused by the video driver.