<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:29 PM, ted leslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:small">If you use TLP on Kubuntu, there are some reports of that causing issue like you mention.</div>
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<br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:small">-tl</div></font></span></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, that pointed me in the right direction. Seems it's a long-standing problem in the Ubuntu kernel at least, and has nothing to do with KDE. This post from Ubuntu 12.04 solved my problem: <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/160882/popping-noise-from-laptop-speakers">http://askubuntu.com/questions/160882/popping-noise-from-laptop-speakers</a><br>
<br></div><div>I only needed the first step for my Thinkpad T420 even though it does have HDA audio. <br></div></div></div></div>