You have been subscribed to a public bug: After upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, the sound output to HDMI is garbage.
The sound is great on local output, on bluetooth headphones, etc. But when outputting to a HDMI TV it is garbage. I tried different users with the same problem. If I boot on Windows, the output is fine, which discards any physical problem, cables and TV as the source of the problem. I did delete any user pulseaudio configuration (and tried as a different one). I purged all system wide configuration and reinstalled the default pulseaudio configs with: apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install pulseaudio On 19.04 and before this problem did not happen at all. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: pulseaudio 1:13.0-1ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 5.4.5-050405-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: raul 4850 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: raul 4850 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Jan 3 09:33:11 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-12 (2062 days ago) InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info' SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-11-17 (46 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/22/2017 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 5.12 dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345 dmi.board.name: P870KM_KM1 dmi.board.vendor: Notebook dmi.board.version: Not Applicable dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr5.12:bd02/22/2017:svnNotebook:pnP870KM_KM1:pvrNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnP870KM_KM1:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.family: Not Applicable dmi.product.name: P870KM_KM1 dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable dmi.product.version: Not Applicable dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook modified.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: [modified] modified.conffile..etc.pulse.system.pa: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: 2019-12-22T00:17:51.785216 mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.system.pa: 2019-12-22T00:16:08.693216 ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan -- pulseaudio produces garbage on HDMI after 19.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1858200 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp